Earlier I wrote:
"All of [my sources on recent Russian history] fall with in the mainstream
of the academic literature, in the mainstream of Western political science
and Russia studies..." [This was in response to Stan Shebs, stating the
following in reference to my work: "I... worry that the unabashed socialist
viewpoint will hurt WP's credibility as an impartial recorder."]
The following is a list of some of the authors I've cited in my work on
post-Soviet Russia on Wikipedia: Anders Åslund, Stephen Cohen, Marshall
Goldman, Juan Linz, Branko Milanovic, Sheila M. Puffer, Henry S. Rowen,
Pekka Sutela, Joseph Stiglitz, Ray Taras, Stephen White, Charles Wolf.
[Perhaps Stiglitz and Cohen can be accused of social democracy and
neo-Keynesianism-- how sinister indeed-- but Anders Åslund offers some
balance from the "Washington Consensus" (BTW, this is quite a pro-market,
pro-Western mix next to general public opinion in Russia right now, and even
some of Vladimir Putin's statements in the past few years. And oddly enough,
I'm being accused of "socialist bias." If anything, it's probably the
other
way around.)
I invite anyone interested to do some research in order to see for
himself/herself how absurd some of the attacks on my credibility have been.
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