Fix, Blair2025-08-052025-08-052025The Soviet Experiment with Empire. Fix, Blair. (2025). Economics from the Top Down. 13 May. pp. 1-12. (Article - Magazine; English).https://hdl.handle.net/10315/43120In my last post, ‘The Half Life of Empire’, I charted the rise and fall of the British and US empires, as measured by their share of world energy use. Afterwards, several readers requested that I apply the same methods to the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Here’s my attempt to do so.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/BritainempireenergyimperialismRussiaSoviet UnionUnited StatesArticle