Rethinking the Varga Controversy, 1941–1953

Kyung Roh

Europe-Asia Studies, 2011, vol. 63, issue 5, 833-855

Abstract: Previous studies have interpreted the disgrace of Eugen Varga and the subsequent dissolution of his prestigious institute in the early postwar years in the Soviet Union as the result of ideological attacks by dogmatic academicians, masterminded by Stalin. The Varga group have been seen as vulnerable because of their ‘revisionist’ ideas on the postwar capitalist economy. Based on a study of newly available Russian archival documents, this article argues that their fall was not related to their theoretical positions and research conclusions, which had never been seriously questioned by Stalin, but to their personal, ethnic and generational backgrounds and the attitudes of some Party leaders, particularly Andrei Zhdanov and his followers, to their backgrounds.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2011.576026

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