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Chayanov: The Reception of an Early Soviet Agricultural Economist

In: Russian and Western Economic Thought

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  • Carol Scott Leonard

    (International Laboratory, Center for Russian Studies)

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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.

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  • Carol Scott Leonard, 2022. "Chayanov: The Reception of an Early Soviet Agricultural Economist," Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Vladimir Avtonomov & Harald Hagemann (ed.), Russian and Western Economic Thought, pages 249-265, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spshcp:978-3-030-99052-7_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99052-7_12
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