Nikolai Petrovich Schmelev
Nikolai Petrowitsch Schmeljow ( Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Шмелёв ; born June 18, 1936 in Moscow ; † January 6, 2014 ibid) was a Russian economist and writer . In his homeland he was considered one of the "architects of perestroika ". From 1999 until his death, the scientist headed the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN for short).
Life
The son of a geodesist graduated from Lomonosov University's Faculty of Economics in 1958 . After that, Schmeljow worked at two of the RAN's economic institutes until 1983 - with a brief interruption. This activity was interrupted in the years 1968–1970 when he worked in the propaganda department of the Central Committee of the CPSU . 1983–1992 Schmeljow worked at the North America Institute and from 1992 at the RAN European Institute.
1989-1991 he was People's Deputy of the USSR .
Schmelev was married to a granddaughter of Khrushchev's first marriage . Because Khrushchev's son Leonid was killed in the air war in the late winter of 1943 and the grandfather had adopted the girl instead of a child, Schmelev was called Khrushchev's son-in-law during the five years of his first marriage. This first marriage failed in 1962. After that, Schmeljow was only allowed to leave the Soviet Union on business trips to Hungary and the GDR .
Schmeljow died of a heart attack .
Awards
- 1996: Order of Honor
- 2007: Order of Friendship
Works in German translation
- Nikolaj Petrovič Šmelev: Perestroika from the perspective of an economist. APN-Verlag, Moscow 1989. 31 pages
- Nikolaj Petrovič Šmelev: violence or rubles. Essays on Perestroika in Business. Translated from the Russian by Friedrich Hitzer . Steidl, Göttingen 1990 (1st edition). 165 pages, ISBN 3-88243-166-0
- Nikolai Petrovich Schmeljow: Nocturnal voices . Story 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolai Petrowitsch Schmeljow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entries in the Slavistics portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cover on perestroika from the perspective of an economist.
- ↑ Russian Академик
- ↑ Russian Институт Европы РАН
- ↑ engl. Institute for US and Canadian Studies
- ↑ Russian Леонид Никитович Хрущёв
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmelev, Nikolai Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шмелёв, Николай Петрович (Russian); Šmelev, Nikolaj Petrovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer, academic and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 2014 |
| Place of death | Moscow |