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In memoriam

Murray Feshbach

Former Senior Scholar
    Kennan Institute

    Term

    October 1, 2012 — September 30, 2016

    Professional affiliation

    Research Professor Emeritus, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

    Wilson Center Projects

    "Policy Implications of Population, Health, and Environment Trends in Russia"

    Full Biography

    Murray Feshbach was a Kennan Institute Fellow in 1979-1980, and the author of the first Occasional Paper published at the Kennan Institute. He worked from 1957-1981 with the U.S. Census Bureau studying the demographics of the Soviet Union. His research notably uncovered an unexpectedly high infant mortality rate in the Soviet Union based on cross-checking notoriously unreliable Soviet statistics. He passed away on October 25, 2019.

    Major Publications

    • The Early Days of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Former Soviet Union, Prepared for the Conference on "Health and Demography in the Former Soviet Union," Harvard University, April 2005
    • HIV/AIDS in Ukraine: An Analysis of Statistics, with Cristina M. Galvin, Research Associate, March 2005
    • HIV/AIDS in the Russian Military – Update*, Prepared for UNAIDS Meeting, 22-23 February 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Potential Social Disarray in Russia Due to Health Factors
    • HIV/AIDS in Russia: An Analysis of Statistics, written with Cristina M. Galvin, Research Associate, January 2005
    • "Russia's Health and Demographic Crises: Policy Implications and Consequences," Health and National Security Series (Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, April 2003)
    • "A Country on the Verge," op-ed, The New York Times, May 31, 2003
    • "Russia's Demographic and Health Meltdown," U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Russia's Uncertain Economic Future, 107th Congress, 1st Session (Government Printing Office, December 2001)
    • Ecological Disaster: Cleaning up the Hidden Legacy of the Soviet Regime (The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995)

    Previous Terms

    October 1, 2000 - September 1, 2006: Demographics in Russia, health and environment; October 1, 1979 - August 1, 1980: Comparative Study of Soviet and American Society During World War II