Chayanov: The Reception of an Early Soviet Agricultural Economist

Carol Scott Leonard ()
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Carol Scott Leonard: International Laboratory, Center for Russian Studies

A chapter in Russian and Western Economic Thought, 2022, pp 249-265 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A leading non-Marxist agricultural economist of early Soviet Russia, Director of the Moscow Institute for Agricultural Economics, Alexander Chayanov (1888–1937) produced exhaustively researched analytic work on the peasant economy, which had a lasting impact in two fields, rural sociology and economic anthropology. He dominated rural studies in Russia from the late imperial period through the mid-1920s. He was removed from his post after failing to dissuade the Soviet government from a rapid course of industrialization and collectivization. He was arrested, imprisoned, sent into exile, and executed in 1937, and his works were not available in Russia until his rehabilitation in 1987. After then, a surge of interest renewed his importance in his field. Chayanov’s writings continue to provide rich data-based framework for considering the peasantry as a distinct community within the larger economy with production incentives that are rooted in local custom and non-market exchange. A social agronomist, A. V. Chayanov was cast by StalinStalin, Joseph as a leader of a (fictional) oppositional party, but his importance lies not on the sidelines in a historical opposition but in the continued influence of his works as the foundation of modern peasant studies.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99052-7_12

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