Russian Economic Science during Emigration of 1920–1930s

Abstract

This article is devoted to the history of Russian economic science during the second and third decades of the 20th century. First of all it is about the difficult fate of Russian pre-revolutionary economic science in the early years of Soviet regime, when the national economic science world was divided into two parts, when many of the greatest scientists of the country were forced to leave the country. It was an irreplaceable loss for the science and practice of economic management in Russia of the 20th century. Scientists of Russian economic emigration continued their research primarily on the economic problems of the Soviet Russia, the results of which have remained unclaimed and unknown at their homeland. At the same time in Russia the new government actively pursued a policy of monopolization of Marxism as the only scientific direction in the social science; this fact severely reduced the possibilities of scientific work of Russian scientists and often led to scholasticism and dogmatism. Refs 27.