Education
Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Menshikov is married to fellow economist Larissa Klimenko-Menshikova and is currently Professor at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He was formerly employed at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Soviet Academy of Sciences during the attempted economic reforms of Nikita Khrushchev. In the late 1970s, Menshikov spent six years on the Secretariat of the United Nations in New York, during which time he was often asked to comment upon the United States. economy by the New York Times.
During the 1980s, he served as a spokesman for the Soviet government on United States. television
Menshikov has published and commented on questions of economic transition. He has been active with the LaRouche Movement"s Schiller Institute and has spoken at their conferences, along with Russian politician and author Sergei Glazyev.
In addition, he took part in panel discussion along with the Dalai Lama, David Bohm and Robert Rauschenberg on the topic of "From Fragmentation to Wholeness" in a video released by the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Menshikov also authored a Russian-language book on the subject of a "compassionate economy" in response to request from the Dalai Lama.
He is the author of numerous publications in Russian and English including The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, and a chapter in Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence. He co-authored Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence with John Kenneth Galbraith and wrote The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism.
The English translation of Menshikov"s book, The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, was published by LaRouche"s Executive Intelligence Review.