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Seminar
Tuesday 21 November 2017
In collaboration with Dipartimento di Economia, Università Roma Tre
The Origins and Fate of Bolshevik Economics
Denis Melnik (
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
The seminar is based on
the paper
recently published by Professor Melnik on Slavic Review
Abstract:
By
February 1917, the handful of future Bolshevik leaders of Russia were scattered all over the globe. Among the few things they had in common was a peculiar vision of the Russian economy and of global economic trends. That vision guided their revolutionary activity. Whether it was “correct” or not, they succeeded. With their grip on power secured, however, their economic reasoning had to confront new challenges, which eventually reshaped the original approach.
A hundred years passed since the Russian revolution and a quarter of a century after the collapse of the real socialism. Now we can question and assume the inevitability of those historic events. Various factors influenced the image of the Soviet Economy, including a specific vision of economics as a science. All of them contributed to the demise of the economy and the state as a whole. During the seminar, we will establish the origins of Soviet economics, consider the factors and trends in its development, and try to evaluate its impact and significance.
Dipartimento di Economia - Via Silvio D'Amico 77, Roma
h 14:30 - room 12
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