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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
James Millar

Fields
  
International relations


Born
  
1936
San Antonio, Texas

Institution
  
George Washington University

Alma mater
  
Cornell University University of Texas at Austin

Died
  
November 30, 2008, Washington, D.C., United States

Books
  
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR, The Soviet economic experiment, The ABCs of Soviet socialism

Education
  
Cornell University (1965), University of Texas at Austin

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

James Robert Millar (1936 – November 30, 2008) was an American political scientist and economist. He was a renowned expert on the Soviet economy.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Millar attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1958. He went on to pursue a doctorate degree at Cornell University, including a year spent as an exchange student at Moscow State University.

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research awards the annual "James R. Millar Graduate Student Prize" for the best graduate student research paper in the humanities and social sciences regarding current or former communist regimes, in honor of Millar.

Works

  • James R. Millar; Sharon L. Wolchik (26 August 1994). The Social Legacy of Communism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-0-521-46748-3. 
  • References

    James R. Millar Wikipedia