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Title: Izrail G. Blyumin - Fate of a Soviet Historian of Economic Thought under Stalinism
Author:
Leonid D. Shirokorad, Joachim Zweynert In 1928 Izrail G. Blyumin under the title „The Subjective School of Political Economy“ published a most distinguished critique of ‘Western’ economic theory. The publication of the second edition, however, led to sharp attacks against the author, who was criticised of a too ‘rational’ style of critique against the class enemy. Blyumin was never imprisoned or repressed, but as contemporaries report, he remained a scared, if not broken man after the attacks at his work. He continued to work in the Academy of Sciences, published regularly on Western economics and the history of Russian economic thought, but he was looked at with great suspicion. Based on published as well as archive materials and an interview with one of his students, the paper aims at giving insights into the fate of a neglected Russian historian of economic thought who certainly can be regarded as one of the ‘silent’ victims of Stalinism. Paper is shceduled for the "Economics under Political Repression" Panel
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