The Austrian school of economics in Russia: From criticism and rejection to absorption and adoption

Dissemination and adoption of Western economic ideas in Russia have never been a simple process, always bearing marks of the socio-political and ideological circumstances of the country and inner processes in economics, as well as marks of read more the national intellectual tradition in general.It is not surprising that the history of Austrian economics in Russia was akin to a long road with many windings and turns.We can distinguish three different periods, or waves, each of them rather complex: from roneverhart.com the 1890s until the late 1920s (introduction and, to a certain degree, adoption and criticism), from the beginning of the 1930s until the mid-1980s (hostile attitude and ignorance), and from the mid-1980s onwards (rediscovery, dissemination, and adoption).