L’école autrichienne en Russie: De la prise de connaissance et du déni, à la redécouverte et à la reconnaissance

Austriaca : Cahiers universitaires d’information sur l’Autriche. 2020. Vol. 90. P. 87–108.

Avtonomov V. S., Makasheva N. A.

Dissemination and adoption of Western economic ideas in Russia was never simple and always bore the marks of socio-political and ideological circumstances, inner economics process and national intellectual traditions, generally speaking. It is no surprise that the history of Austrian economics in Russia was a long winding road. We distinguish three different waves, each rather complex: from the 1890s until the late 1920s, Austrian economics were introduced and, to a certain degree, adopted and criticized; from the beginning of the 1930s until the mid-1980s, a hostile attitude was mitigated with ignorance; last, from the mid-1980s onwards rediscovery came with dissemination and limited acceptance. Our purpose is to analyze the peculiarities of the perception of Austrian economics by Russian economists in the 20th century, to see the reasons for its criticism by most Russian economists, and to study the specific character of its adoption by some who, albeit few in number, considered it promising.

Keywords: history of economic thought, Soviet economic thought, Austrian school of economics, Russian economic thought