Simon Kuznets and Russia: An Uneasy Relationship

Moshe Syrquin ()
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Moshe Syrquin: University of Miami

A chapter in Russian and Western Economic Thought, 2022, pp 307-342 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter traces the uneasy relation of Simon Kuznets and Russia. Kuznets was born and educated in Russia and the Soviet Ukraine and completed his economic education in the US under Wesley Mitchell. His keen interest and mildly sympathetic view of the early Soviet regime changed drastically by 1930, apparently as a result of the Stalinist purges. He fell silent on all things Russian for three decades. The debates on Soviet industrialization in the early 1920s influenced his major study on the economic growth of nations. By 1960, he reengaged with Soviet economics with a devastating appraisal of its performance. Some of his work was influenced by his heritage, particularly his Jewish roots.

Keywords: Simon Kuznets; Modern economic growth; Soviet industrialization; Jewish heritage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99052-7_15

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