Simon Pirani is senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and has written widely on Soviet history and energy issues. His books include Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption and The Russian Revolution in Retreat and Change in Putin’s Russia.
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