"The Honest Marxist": Yakov Kronrod and the Politics of Cold War Economics in the Post-Stalin USSR

Yakov Feygin

History of Political Economy, 2019, vol. 51, issue 6, 100-126

Abstract: This article examines the career of Yakov Kronrod, a Soviet economic theorist, in the context of the larger transformation of Soviet economics in the post-Stalin period. It argues that Kronrod’s debates with his rivals in the “Mathematical Economics†and “Moscow State University†approaches to economics open a window on how the changing relationship between the state and the profession of economics created new research agendas. The transformation of economics in the post-Stalin period into a “Cold War Science†from an “ideological science†made “policy relevance†increasingly important to Soviet economic practitioners and allowed once ideologically hostile ideas to become central to economics. This case study makes a larger intervention into the history of late Soviet society, arguing that seemingly arcane intellectual conflicts were, in fact, a reflection of extremely contentious political battles and that ideology remained a key site of politics deep into the Brezhnev era.

Keywords: Cold War; Soviet politics; Marxian economics; late socialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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