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- Birth nameMarshall Irwin Goldman
- Marshall Goldman was born on July 26, 1930 in Elgin, Illinois, USA. He is known for Secrets of War (1998) and Panorama (1953). He was married to Merle Goldman. He died on August 2, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseMerle Goldman(? - August 2, 2017) (his death, 4 children)
- Economist, author, professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and associate director of the Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies at Harvard. He diagnosed deficiencies in Moscow's economic policies for decades and was among the first Kremlinologists to predict the downfall of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was an authority on the Soviet economy, charting its downs and potential ups. He pioneered scholarship on the environmental damage inflicted under Communist domination and the emergence of a post-Soviet economy driven by oil and gas production. As early as 1987 he painted a grim picture of the consequences of perestroika and glasnost, the liberalization programs that Gorbachev had put in place.
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