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Steven R. Rosefielde (born 1942) is professor of comparative economic systems at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Red Holocaust

In Red Holocaust, Rosefielde's main point is that communism in general, although he focuses mostly on Stalinism, is less genocidal, and that is a key distinction from Nazism. According to German historian Jörg Hackmann [de], the term is not popular among scholars in Germany or internationally. Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine writes that usage of this term "allows the reality it describes to immediately attain, in the Western mind, a status equal to that of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazi regime." Michael Shafir writes that the use of the term supports the "competitive martyrdom component of Double Genocide", a theory whose worst version is Holocaust obfuscation. George Voicu states that Leon Volovici has "rightfully condemned the abusive use of this concept as an attempt to 'usurp' and undermine a symbol specific to the history of European Jews."

Work, reviews and citations

In a 2001 study, Rosefielde calculated that there were 3.4 million premature deaths in Russia from 1990 to 1998, partly blaming on the shock therapy that came with the Washington Consensus. Rosefielde's work has been reviewed in peer-reviewed journals. Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization was reviewed by David G. Rowley in History: Reviews of New Books. Red Holocaust was reviewed by Martin Kragh in Scandinavian Economic History Review. As of 2020, "Measuring Enterprise Efficiency in the Soviet Union: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis" has been cited 82 times.

Selected works

• Steven Rosefielde; Jonathan Leightner (19 September 2017). China's Market Communism: Challenges, Dilemmas, Solutions. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1138125230.
• Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization, with Stefan Hedlund, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Red Holocaust, Routledge, 2009
• Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism: Essays in Honor of Abram Bergson, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• The Russian Economy: From Lenin to Putin, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
• Masters of Illusion: American Leadership In The Media Age, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth, and Power in the 21st Century, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002, 2005, 2008
• Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Premature Deaths: Russia's Radical Economic Transition in Soviet Perspective, Europe-Asia Studies (2001). 53 (8): 1159–1176. doi:10.1080/09668130120093174.
• Efficiency and Russia's Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000 and Beyond, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 1998
• Documented Homicides and Excess Deaths: New Insights into the Scale of Killing in the USSR during the 1930s Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. (PDF file) Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 321–333. University of California, 1997.
• False Science: Underestimating the Soviet Arms Buildup. An Appraisal of the CIA's Direct Costing Effort, 1960–1985, 1988
• World Communism at the Crossroads: Military Ascendancy, Political Economy, and Human Welfare, 1980
• Soviet International Trade in Heckscher-Ohlin Perspective: An Input-Output Study, 1973

References

1. "Steven Rosefielde". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
2. ^ Kragh, Martin (November 2011). "Book Reviews: Red Holocaust". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 59 (3). London, England: Routledge: 312–314. doi:10.1080/03585522.2011.617586. S2CID 219714055.
3. Hackmann, Jörg (March 2009). "From National Victims to Transnational Bystanders? The Changing Commemoration of World War II in Central and Eastern Europe". Constellations. 16 (1). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley: 167–181. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8675.2009.00526.x.
4. Goslan, Richard Joseph; Rousso, Henry, eds. (2004). Stalinism and Nazism: History and Memory Compared. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-803-29000-6.
5. ^ Shafir, Michael (Summer 2016). "Ideology, Memory and Religion in Post-Communist East Central Europe: A Comparative Study Focused on Post-Holocaust". Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies. 15 (44). Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Babeș-Bolyai University: 52–110.
6. Voicu, George (2018). "Postcommunist Romania's Leading Public Intellectuals and the Holocaust". In Florian, Alexandru (ed.). Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania, Studies in Antisemitism. Bloomington, Indianda: Indiana University Press. pp. 41–71. ISBN 978-0-253-03274-4.
7. Rosefielde, Steven (2001). "Premature Deaths: Russia's Radical Economic Transition in Soviet Perspective". Europe-Asia Studies. 53 (8). Milton Park, England: Routledge: 1159–1176. doi:10.1080/09668130120093174. JSTOR 826265. S2CID 145733112.
8. Rowley, David G. (September 2010). "A Review of 'Russia since 1980: Wrestling with Westernization'". History: Reviews of New Books. 38 (4): 138–139. doi:10.1080/03612759.2010.500213. S2CID 143091300.
9. "Steven Rosefielde". Retrieved 13 November 2020 – via Google Scholar.

• 1942 births
• 21st-century American economists
• Living people
• Harvard University alumni
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty