Simon Pirani

Simon Pirani is author of "The Russian Revolution in Retreat," "1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite" (2008), and of books and articles on post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. He is a journalist with a lifelong commitment to the labor movement, and a former editor of the British miners' union journal. He is currently senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and co-author of "Russian and CIS Gas Markets and Their Impact on Europe" (2009).

Simon Pirani is author of "The Russian Revolution in Retreat," "1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite" (2008), and of books and articles on post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. He is a journalist with a lifelong commitment to the labor movement, and a former editor of the British miners' union journal. He is currently senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and co-author of "Russian and CIS Gas Markets and Their Impact on Europe" (2009). See less