Wendy Z. Goldman

About

Wendy Z. Goldman is a faculty member in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She is recognized as an acclaimed environmental historian and a scholar of history with a focus on issues related to diversity, inclusion, and equity in education. Her contributions include redesigning courses to incorporate diverse perspectives, explore strategies that enable student participation, remove barriers, and consider a variety of learning needs and preferences. As part of her work, she addresses gender bias in the scientific community by researching and discussing issues of gender barriers and equal representation in science, including incorporating an equal proportion of female and male scientific authors in her course materials. Her efforts are part of a broader initiative to bring greater focus to issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity within and outside of the classroom at Carnegie Mellon University.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Law
• Sociology
• Neoclassical economics
• Archaeology
• Economic system
• Biology
• Algorithm
• Political economy

Selected publications

• Fortress Dark and Stern

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2021 · 12 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The book tells the story, largely unknown to Western readers, of the Soviet home front during World War II. After Hitler’s invasion in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east and built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers. As millions of…

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• Introduction: Primitive Accumulation and Socialism

  International Review of Social History · 2022 · 7 citations

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  Abstract In this dossier, Marx's concept of primitive accumulation is applied to socialist development in the Soviet Union, China, and Romania, three countries in which socialist revolution occurred before the full development of capitalism. The introduction profiles the ideas of Evgenii Preobrazhensky, the Soviet theorist and left oppositionist, who first applied Marx's concept to the problems of socialist development, and was executed under Stalin in 1937. Preobrazhensky advanced the idea of “…

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• Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36

  University of California Press eBooks · 2023 · 3 citations

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• Blood on the Red Banner: Primitive Accumulation in the World's First Socialist State

  International Review of Social History · 2022-03-16 · 2 citations

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  Abstract This article provides a reinterpretation of Stalinism through the lens of Marx's concept of primitive accumulation. It connects a series of defining events that are usually viewed separately – the debates and oppositional movements of the 1920s, industrialization, collectivization, and the “Great Terror” – to the state's need to accumulate capital for development. Using the idea of “primitive socialist accumulation”, first introduced by the Soviet theorist and left oppositionist Evgeny…

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• The Soviet Home Front and the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945

  2025-01-09

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  This chapter examines the situation in the Soviet rear during the Great Patriotic War, where the Soviet rear-area mobilisation of economic and human resources constituted a consistent success story in terms of the ultimate aim of winning the war, even if the human cost was considerable. This chapter examines themes such as evacuation, labour mobilisation, rationing and propaganda to help the reader understand the significance of the rear for Soviet victory, as well as the high human costs of suc…

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Frequent coauthors

• Donald Filtzer

  Russian Academy of Sciences

  25 shared

• Gijs Kessler

  11 shared

• Simon Pirani

  Durham University

  6 shared

• Simon Pirani

  4 shared

• Joe William Trotter

  Carnegie Mellon University

  2 shared

• Lynne Viola

  2 shared

• Barbara A. Holland

  Northern Kentucky University

  1 shared

• Heather J. Coleman

  1 shared

Labs

• Wendy Z. Goldman LabPI

Awards & honors

• Berkshire Conference Book Award
• Honorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History
• Society for Military History prize

Similar researchers at Carnegie Mellon University

• Steven Schlossmanh-23
• Christopher Phillipsh-16
• Edmund Russellh-13