Simon Pirani- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Simon Pirani
- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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Simon Pirani currently works at the Natural Gas Research Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where he has written numerous papers and book chapters on natural gas markets in former Soviet countries. He is author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto Press, 2018). His earlier publications on history include The Russian Revolution in Retreat (Routledge, 2008) and Change in Putin's Russia: Power, Money and People (Pluto, 2010). See www.simonpirani.com.
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This chapter will argue that in the Russo-Ukrainian ‘gas wars’ of 2006 and 2009, the dynamics of post-Soviet transition, economic events, and shifting commercial relationships were more significant than political factors. The ways in which the ‘gas wars’ exposed the limitations of both international governance mechanisms (specifically, the Energy C...
Ukraine has a natural gas problem. The Ukrainian economy is one of the most energy intensive in the world and almost half of its primary energy consumption is natural gas. But not only is the country's consumption enormous, its dependency on imports is also great. Conflicts with main supplier Russia are the order of the day. The most recent contrac...
The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution's aims in 1920-24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy - and specifically, on the turbulent relationship between th...
This article aims to contribute to discussion of the formation of the Soviet ruling class in the post‐revolutionary period by looking at some aspects of that process during a short period (1922–23) in Moscow, the Soviet capital. The article discusses groupings that were on their way to becoming parts of the Soviet ruling class – the Communist Party...
THE THEME OF THIS ARTICLE is the upsurge of the workers' movement in Russia in 1921 following the end of the civil war, with specific reference to Moscow. There were two main aspects to this movement: first, the wave of protests triggered in February 1921 by supply shortages, and second, the resurgence of working-class political activity in March-A...
Thesis (Ph.D.), Dept. of History -- University of Essex, 2006.
