Paul R. Gregory

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Biography: 

Paul Gregory is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and is emeritus chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kiev School of Economics. Gregory has held visiting teaching appointments at Moscow State University, Viadrina University, and the Free University of Berlin. He blogs on national and international economic topics at http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/ and http://paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com/.

The holder of a PhD in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and more than one hundred articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. Gregory’s economics papers have been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.  His most recent books are Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives (Hoover Institution Press, 2013), Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina (Hoover Institution Press, 2010), Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 2008), Terror by Quota (Yale, 2009), and The Political Economy of Stalinism (Cambridge, 2004), which won the Hewett Prize. He edited The Lost Transcripts of the Politburo (Yale, 2008), Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy (Hoover, 2001), and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (Hoover, 2003). The work of his Hoover Soviet Archives Research Project team is summarized in "Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archive" (coauthored with Hoover fellow Mark Harrison), published in the Journal of Economic Literature.

Gregory has also published The Global Economy and Its Economic Systems (Cengage, 2013) and is working with director Marianna Yarovskaya on a film documentary entitled Women of the Gulag.

Gregory also served on the editorial board of the seven-volume Gulag documentary series entitled The History of the Stalin Gulag, published jointly by the Hoover Institution and the Russian Archival Service. He also serves or has served on the editorial boards of Comparative Economic Studies, Slavic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Problems of Post-Communism, and Explorations in Economic History.

His research papers are available at the Hoover Institution Archives.

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Truckers Halt Moscow Traffic As Putin Shifts The Blame

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Long-haul truckers from the North Caucasus to Western Siberia began a protest against a new GPS-based federal road tax on November 11. Independent truckers formed slow-moving convoys that caused kilometer-long traffic jams throughout the affected regions.

Analysis and Commentary

Why Putin Makes A Bad Ally

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Project Syndicate
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in the Syrian conflict has been welcomed by some as a moment for the Kremlin to “come in from the cold.” Russia’s conflict with the Islamic State, the argument goes, has aligned the country’s interests with those of the West. Even Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane does not seem not to have deflated this optimism.

Analysis and Commentary

Has Putin Met His Match In Russia's Truck Drivers?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Monday, November 30, 2015

Russia’s long-haul truck drivers have disrupted the country’s federal highways for more than two weeks to protest a new road tax (platon in Russian) collected (with a 20% commission) by the Putin-associated Rotenberg oligarchs.

Analysis and Commentary

Kremlin Accuses Me Of Lying About Syria

by Paul R. Gregoryvia What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
Monday, November 30, 2015

Being singled out by an official agency of Kremlin propaganda is flattering in a perverse way. It shows that they worrry about the effect I might have on public opinion. But it is not flattering to be called a liar; so let's look into what I actually said.

Analysis and Commentary

If Turkey And Russia Continue Fighting, It May Threaten NATO's Existence

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

We all knew it would happen, whether off the coast of Alaska, over the Baltic Sea, or in the Middle East. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been routinely challenging the NATO airspace for months, well before entering the Syrian conflict.

Analysis and Commentary

Russia’s Economic Stagnation

by Paul R. Gregoryvia National Review
Monday, November 23, 2015

Since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine in February 2014, Vladimir Putin has assured the Russian people that any resulting economic hardship would be short and mild.

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Russia Cooks Its Defense Books

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Politico
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Moscow says it spends less than it does so that NATO will cut back too.

Analysis and Commentary

Putin's Syria Narrative Must Win Russian Public Opinion--But It'll Be A Hard Sell

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Vladimir Putin has embarked on Russia’s first military action outside the former Soviet Union, and he must now convince Russian people that his intervention in Syria is necessary and in Russia’s best interests. In his three previous propaganda-driven military ventures—the second Chechen war, Georgia and Crimea/East Ukraine—Putin has gained popularity. The Russian president must be counting on Syria to maintain his current ratings, an all-time high of near 90%.

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Analysis and Commentary

Putin’s Foreign Legion

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Politico
Monday, October 19, 2015

Russia is shifting its little green men to Syria.

Analysis and Commentary

MH17: A Tragic Mistake Or Deliberate State Murder?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The Dutch Safety Board has issued the results of its investigation of the cause of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 12, 2014. It concluded that a Russian-made missile brought the plane down over rebel-occupied territory in east Ukraine.

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