Abstracts of Main Articles

SALUTARY «WHIRPOOL» OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: UNLEARNED LESSON OF THE 1930-ies

Author

Lyubinin A.B., ScD (Economics), Professor, member of the Board of Directors, JSC «Business – Alliance»

Abstract

Paper is a reprint (with editorial comments) of some fragments from the article of the «Rossiisky Ekonomichesky Zhurnal»’s issue 1 of 2015 in «From the Journal’s Archive» subsection of «Retrospections and the Present for the 100 Year Anniversary of the October Revolution» section. The author, first, develops an interpretation of Russian history as essentially indivisible process that includes civilizational opposition to the West as an integral part. Second, from this methodological point of view he analyzed radical transformation of national economy structure in the 1930-ies that provided the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War and gave rather important but poorly learned by the present Russian authorities macro-administrative lesson.

Keywords

industrialization, reindustrialization, new industrialization, industrial policy, The Great October Socialist Revolution, pre-war Soviet five year plans, Gosplan of the USSR, relocating economic potential of the USSR to the East, N.A. Voznesensky, mobilization model, modernization.

 

LESSONS OF THE GREAT VICTORY

Author

Yakutin Yu.V., Sc.D. (Economics), Professor, Honored master of sciences of the RF, Vice-president of the Free Economic Society of Russia, academic adviser of «Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta» PH.

Abstract

Paper is a reprint (with editorial comments) of some fragments from the article of the «Rossiisky Ekonomichesky Zhurnal»’s issue 1 of 2015 in «From the Journal’s Archive» subsection of «Retrospections and the Present for the 100 Year Anniversary of the October Revolution» section. The author, first, accentuated that the notion of «The Great Victory» organically associates with the notions of «the Great Russia» and «The Great October Socialist Revolution». Second, he formulates for social scientists a twin-track methodological problem of analytical revealing the lessons of the Great Victory by lots of various (and inevitably intersecting) classificatory foundations and «synthetic» constructing finally a complete system of those lessons. Third, the author proposed his own variant of their list.

Keywords

the Great Patriotic War, the Great Victory, the Great Russia, the Great October Socialist Revolution, The Second World War, V.I. Lenin, I.V. Stalin, G.K. Zhukov, N.A. Voznsensky, plan-mobilization model, Gosplan of the USSR, national economic planning, macro-planning, radically-liberal course, statist-dirigiste course.

 

SOVIET DEFENCE INDUSTRY: FROM PRE-WAR, WAR AND POST-WAR HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

Author

Vinslav Yu.B., Sc.D. (Economics), Professor, chief research fellow, the Russian State Geological Prospecting University

Abstract

Paper is a reprint (with editorial comments) of the article of the «Rossiisky Ekonomichesky Zhurnal»’s issue 1 of 2010 in «From the Journal’s Archive» subsection of «Retrospections and the Present for the 100 Year Anniversary of the October Revolution» section. The author, first, ascertains: a) the course of the Great Patriotic War and its victorious end demonstrated a unique ability of socialist planning-centralized economic system to concentrate all kinds of the resources for solving problems of providing national security and repulsing external threats; b) tremendous role in the Great Victory was played by national defence industry created in 1920-1930 that predestined the Red Army’ superiority by qualitative and quantitative parameters of armament and military equipment. Second, he characterized the history of organization and management of military-industrial complex at the most essential moments, first of all, during the pre-war decades and during the war; corresponding aspects ones related to the post-war period (mainly the conversion ones) are also touched upon.

Keywords

defence industry, military industrial complex, armament and military equipment, socialist planning-centralized economic system, industrialization, the Great Patriotic War, post-war reconstruction of national economy, five year plans, the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) of the USSR, CPSU(b), SCNE, CNK of the USSR, GKO, Council of Ministers of the USSR, military industry conversion, deindustrialization.

 

THE FOOD SECURITY DOCTRINE OF THE RF NEEDS FOR CONCEPTUAL REVISION

Author

Gumerov R.R., PhD (Economics), lecturer, leading research fellow, Institute of Macroeconomic Studies, Ministry of Economic Development of Russia

Abstract

The thesis contained in the title of the article and thoroughly proved by the author is identical with the statement that principally new doctrinal document is necessary as an alternative to the «Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation» being in force since the beginning of 2010. The represented conception is based on the results of the author’s long term research in the field of Russian agro-economy, given in numerous publications in «Rossiisky Ekonomichesky Zhurnal», «ECO»,«Economist» and «Managment Science».

Keywords

food security, Food Security Doctrine of the RF, criteria and indicators of food security, threats to food security, food independence, food self-sufficiency, physical and economic accessibility of foodstuffs, import substitution, grain export, Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, Food and Agricultural Organization UNO (FAO), OECD, WTO.

 

RECENT UKRANIAN SHOCKS OF RUSSIAN ECONOMY (on Influence of «Post-Maydan» Crisis in RU to Reproduction Processes in the RF)

Author

Kosikova L.S., PhD (Geography), lecturer, leading research worker, Institute of Economics RAS

Abstract

Various aspects of Ukranian crisis influencing Russian economy during the «post-maydan» period are analyzed. The accent is made on the consequences of severe degradation of economic (trade and production) relations between Russia and Ukraine. An attempt is made to evaluate the reprodaction damage of Russia from disintegration with Ukraine – on the base of systematizing official statistical data and open information on separate spheres of bilateral interaction.

Keywords

Republic of Ukraine (RU)’, euro-maydan, trade and economic relations between Ukraine and Russia, Ukranian transit of energy resources, reversion supplies of Russian gas to Europe, Nord Stream-2, Naftogas of Ukraine, Gasprom, Saving Bank of Russia, cooperation connections, bilateral military-technical cooperation, nationalization of Russian property and confiscation of Russian business estate in Ukraine, anti-Russian sanctions of the West, adaptation of the Crimea economy, project Kerch Bridge.

 

PRESENT ECONOMY: FOR EVALUATING APPROACHES OF «ECONOMICS» AUTHORITIES (on Book by D.V. Valovoy «What Economists Don’t Think of Economic Story»)

Author

Yakutin Yu.V., Sc.D. (Economics), Professor, Honored master of sciences of the RF, Vice-president of the Free Economic Society of Russia, academic adviser of «Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta» PH;

Ivanov V.T., PhD (Economics), Professor, Chair of Economic Theory, Academy of Labor and Social Relations

Abstract

Paper is a review of the book pointed in the subheading (M.: Algoruthm, 2017), becoming the author’s critical reaction to the book «What Do Economists Think Of. Talks with Nobel Prize-Winners» (ed. by P. Samuelson and U. Barnett. – M.: Alpina Publisher, 2016). The initiators of its publishing in Russian aimed at supporting the authority of «economics-mainstream» that was considerably shaken in our country due to global financial and economic crisis of the end of the 2000-s. A conclusion on the usefulness of the work under review for Russian scientific and economic community is substantiated. In the reviewers’ opinion the book by D.V. Valovoy is able to serve as a factor of positive solving the problem being discussed for a long time, concerning the revival of classical political economy’s status in Russia as a scientific and educational (higher school) discipline.

Keywords

classical political economy, neo-classical political economy (economics), mainstream economics, vulgar political economy, Nobel prize-winners in economics (Nobleates), K. Marx, V.I. Lenin, U. Petti, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, P. Samuelson, J. Stiglitz, A. Sen, J.-P. Fitoussi.