Analyses energy needs and policies within the Soviet Union.

Russia’s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand t

Energy exports, which are already the primary source of Soviet convertible currency earnings and an important contributor to the budget, could bring in much mor

This timely book analyses the status of hydrocarbon energy in Russia as both a saleable commodity and as a source of societal and political power. Through empir

This paper reviews two 1979 books: The Soviet Energy System, by Leslie Dienes and Theodore Shabad; and Industrialization in the USSR, by Robert Lewis.