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Shestidesyatniki Economics, the Idea of Convergence, and Perestroika

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The article analyzes the reception of the idea of convergence in Soviet economics from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. It is predominantly concerned with convergence theory as a policy idea that inspired perestroika. Its central question is: Under the conditions of an authoritarian regime, how could an imported policy idea that bluntly contradicted official ideology reach a degree of dissemination and (among a specific stratum of the elite) popularity that would later turn it into a central pillar of reform policy? An important finding is that the idea of convergence united the Soviet “people of the sixties†and some Western “progressive†intellectuals who together formed a transregional epistemic community that only for a short period of time, at the end of the 1980s, gained political influence.

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  • Joachim Zweynert, 2019. "Shestidesyatniki Economics, the Idea of Convergence, and Perestroika," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 51(6), pages 277-299, Supplemen.
    • Handle: RePEc:hop:hopeec:v:51:y:2019:i:6:p:277-299
    DOI: 10.1215/00182702-7903336
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