From the Soviets to Classical Liberalism

Krassen Stanchev ()
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Krassen Stanchev: Institute for Market Economics

Chapter Chapter 73 in Libertarian Autobiographies, 2023, pp 433-439 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Personal mindset evolutions, including those toward classical liberalism and value, most often come first from life, and only than from family, education, and reading. Three accidental experiences seem most important: a boyish excitement by the liberation spirit of the Prague Spring in 1967–1968, witnessing the criminalized but actual functioning of free markets and underground dissidentism in Soviet Union of 1970s, and 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. The latter converted the academic attentiveness to libertarian thinking into a political resolve a personal contribution to dismantling the Communist system in Bulgaria and Europe. All these resulted in life-long commitment to promote libertarian values everywhere in the post-1989 world.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29608-6_73

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