ABSTRACT OF PAPER
Title: Survival of economics under the Soviet rule: the case of IMEMO-Institute
Author: Avtonomov Vladimir
The separate existence of economic research, concentrated in the Institutes of the Academy of Sciences, and economic education practised in universities was characteristic for the Soviet Union. It must be mentioned that the situation with research in the Academy was better than in universities both because the ideological press there was relatively lighter and because the teaching load for university professors was too heavy for international standards and couldn’t be combined with active research. University teachers in general rarely published anything except teaching materials or scholastic articles. The situation in different research institutes of the Academy of Sciences was not the same. The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) was founded in 1956 in order to supply the Central Committee of the Communist party with reliable and not ideologically distorted information about economy of Western and developing countries. This presupposed free access to Western literature of statistical, applied and theoretical nature. This information as well as some results of research however were kept secret from general public. So for Soviet economists one of escape strategies from ideological pressure parodoxically was to get closest to the place where real power was which required the use of unbiased information.
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