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Simon Pirani

Researcher, lecturer and writer + + + Honorary Professor, University of Durham

Monday, 30 May 2022

Goodbye Russian gas, hello rapid decarbonisation

A European embargo on imports of Russian fossil fuels could, combined with the right energy conservation policies, also help to tackle dangerous climate change. Open Democracy,  20 May.

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Supporting the Ukrainian resistance: six questions

My attempt to analyse the character of the Ukrainian resistance, of the Russian state it is standing up to, and of the meaning of national liberation in the 21st century (19 April).
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Putin has sacrificed Russia's economy for this war on Ukraine's people

With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has also wrecked the Russian economy for years to come, by provoking unprecedented economic sanctions. My article in Truthout (21 March)

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Ukraine: the sources of danger of a wider war

A blog post (21 March) in which I argued against the focus on NATO expansion, since politically it deflects from Kremlin's responsibility, and analytically, it obscures interrelated crises of capital system and neoliberalism that have brought us to war

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Welcome

I am a researcher, writer and lecturer, and author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto Press, 2018). My main area of research is the transition away from fossil fuels, with a focus on how technological, social and economic systems change. I write a blog at peoplenature.org. Bluesky: @simonpirani.bsky.social.

My earlier work as a historian and energy researcher was focused on Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. My book The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite (Routledge, 2008) was a study of working-class political history. I published some relevant documents in Communist Dissidents in Early Soviet Russia (Troubadour, 2023). Another book, Change in Putin’s Russia: Power, Money and People (Pluto Press, 2010) was based on my work as a journalist.

I am Honorary Professor in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Durham. From 2007 to 2021 I was Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, working on the Natural Gas Research Programme.


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      • Putin has sacrificed Russia's economy for this war...
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