TO THE BOARD OF THE STATE INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY (LETTER OF A.V. CHAYANOV)

Abstract

This is a publication of an archival document-a letter of Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov (1888-1937) written in 1928 to the administration of the Research Institute of Agricultural Economy as a response to the criticism of his theory of peasant economy by an agrarian-Marxist and employee of the Institute Ivan Vermenichev. The letter reveals the circumstances of writing and publishing Chayanov’s article “The current state of agriculture and agricultural statistics in Russia”. This publication characterizes the atmosphere of ideological discussions and persecution of the non-communist scientific thought in the USSR in the late 1920s. The comments were prepared by I.А. Kuznetsov.