Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev

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Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev ( Russian Алексей Матвеевич Румянцев ., Scientific transliteration Aleksej Matveevič Rumyantsev , born February 3 jul. / 16th February  1905 greg. In the village Minzowo, Ujesd Galich, today in the Oblast Kostroma , † 1. December 1993 in Moscow ) was a Soviet economist and sociologist who, after a steep career in the USSR Academy of Sciences , was fired for his liberal outlook in 1972.

Studies, apprenticeship and first offices

First he worked in the People's Commissariat for Agriculture 1925–1927 and 1928–1929, then 1929–1930 in the People's Commissariat for Justice in the Ukrainian SSR . In between he served in the Red Army (1927–1928).

1930–1943 he worked as an aspirant, lecturer and professor in science and teaching at the University of Kharkov , among others . In 1940 he defended his candidate dissertation on the subject of "Origin of private property in movable property" (Russian) at the Economics Institute of the Academy of the USSR. In 1949 he became a professor at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute .

Career

1950–1952 he was director of the Economics Institute and at the same time head of the social science department of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . 1952–1955 he was head of the sections for economy and history, then for science and culture at the Central Committee of the CPSU . In 1956 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine “ Kommunist ”, in 1958 editor-in-chief of the magazine “ Problems of Peace and Socialism ”. In 1964 he became editor-in-chief of " Pravda ". In 1960 he became a corresponding member, in 1966 a full member and in 1967 Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1967 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in the GDR and a foreign member in 1969.

Director of the IKSI

1968–1972 he was director of the Institute for Concrete Social Research (IKSI) of the USSR, which was founded on his initiative and which arose from the sociology section of the Philosophy Institute of the AW. He became the "key figure" of a liberal research group. Due to differences with the party, he was forced to resign as head of the institute and vice-president of the academy in 1972. As part of a reorganization of the IKSI into the Institute for Sociological Studies, other leading scientists from his liberal circle were dismissed.

Publications (selection)

He has published over 220 papers in 13 languages.

  • Political economy ; 1983.
  • Sources and development of Mao Tse-tung's ideas . On the anti-Marxist essence of Maoism , Berlin (East), Dietz Verlag, 1st edition, 1973.
  • Political economy of socialism , Rumjanzew with JF Borissow and DW Walowoi, Berlin (East), Verlag Die Wirtschaft 1973.
  • Engels and the problems of Marxism-Leninism in the present. Presentation at the international scientific conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Friedrich Engels , Berlin (East), Dietz Verlag, 1971.
  • Leninism and the world revolutionary working-class movement; problems of the struggle for the unity of the proletariat, of all anti-imperialist forces ; 1971.
  • Categories and laws of the political economy of communism ; 1969.
  • Economic reform: its realization and problems (Russian); 1969.

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SURNAME Rumyantsev, Alexei Matveevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Minzowo, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1993
Place of death Moscow