Moscow (February 1998). "The logic of the base of public-we-rrrrr tschaftspolitik ..." dictated Professor Schwyrkow voice rattling his. Two dozen students wrote with zeal. The other 200 students over the semester, had other plans this morning, as Yury Schwyrkows to listen to lectures. No wonder you could still read the contents in the textbook of the professor.
Hard to Kill - Marx, Lenin and co
Schwyrkow was a renowned expert on die sozialistische Planwirtschaft. Der grauhaarige Ökonom hatte schon als Regierungsberater für verschiedene sozialistische Entwicklungsländer gearbeitet. Sein Standardlehrbuch aus den siebziger Jahren über die «Planung der Volkswirtschaft» war in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt worden. Ende der Neunziger, in Russland war längst der wilde, ungezügelte Kapitalismus ausgebrochen, hielt Schwyrkow weiter seine alten Vorlesungen, als hätte es die Zeitenwechsel vor den Fenstern seines Hörsaals nie gegeben. Und die Studenten mussten weiter seine verstaubten Bücher studieren.
Kaum ein akademischer Fachbereich war von der Sowjetideologie so durchwachsen worden, wie die Wirtschaftswissenschaft. The graduates of the Moscow State University were unsurpassed in proving the imminent demise of the Western market economy. From the economics developments in the rest of the world they were cut off.
purpose weapon Karl Popper
Shortly after arriving in Moscow, I was shocked by the vehemence of many teachers, stating they were from traditional Communist dogma. On Tillmann Kebers Council, I borrowed the Moscow Goethe-Institut Karl Popper's "Open Society" from an accounting genius with Marxism, which I devoured during my first dark Russian winter and the arguments it confused me later discussions with my teachers or lecturers more than once should prove invaluable.
the transition to a market economy, there had been at the Economic Faculty of the Lomonosov University in three groups of teachers and professors. The first exchanged their pittance as a scientist for a career in the newly formed company. The second group tried to reach quickly the general state of the art, for instead of "political economy of imperialism" in the future to teach microeconomics-2. The third and possibly most ultimately, neither the one nor the other could, taught on as if nothing had happened. Some gave the willingness to change just enough that its own little compartment was renamed.
compulsory seminar in quibbling
For example, in Soviet times was a "special seminar on Karl Marx's Capital" must for all budding Russian economists. The mid-1990s, the Moscow State University had been at least so far as to rename the seminar in "Theoretical analysis of economic systems." Of analysis could, of course, no question. The students had the "capital" from cover to cover read and retell. Another white-haired professor, after all, a member of the Academy of Sciences, had devised a theoretical subject in which he his students for more than several weeks, the differences between the two terms "economy" and discussed "economy". It seemed almost to be his life's work to convince the world that this would be quibbling drängstendste problem of economics.
A fellow students liked the circus so much that he later even wrote his thesis with the professor. The took each other's heads. The Russian higher education system does, however, the concept of academic freedom, so all students had the most absurd subjects show that appeared on the respect of all obligations, transplanted curriculum.
The true nature get to the bottom
order to disguise their incompetence, the old ideologues had prepared down to our faculty a nice theory. That they actually had no idea of the subject that they taught was not so bad. Of course they said not so, but a slightly different way: In fact, the essence of this theory were the patriotic political economy and the Western Economics, derogatory to the Anglicism "Ekonomik" called, has always been very different subjects, the relation to each other had. On the western universities are any supply and demand curves drawn on the blackboard, with nothing of reality had to do. In the West superior "patriotic economics" they go on the other hand the true nature of the economic "categories" on the ground.
And also to continue to employ, invented the luminaries of the Russian political economy of new subjects: "transition economy" was one of her favorite projects. This discipline should reveal the internal laws of transition from socialist to market economies. What in theory still sounded quite interesting, emerged in practice unfortunately only as a Marxist Geschwurbel devoid of content.
After all, the most Marxists in my department were relatively harmless contemporaries. Different than the teachers who ran the course "Sociology of economists" and "History of the Fatherland." Both were obvious Stalinists, the bloody deeds of the killers Georgian even justify them publicly. In "History of the Fatherland" I could not help but open opposition to the jingoistic representations of our seminar leader of the often simple. At the oral exam she asked me then unexpectedly probably ironic question of who "have been worse" for now, Hitler or Stalin. With the answer, "You'd better ask a Pole" I could from the Pull affair. Test passed.
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Marxists still dominate Russia Humanities
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Moscow (EPD). For Viktor Sadownitschij, Rector of Moscow State University is clear: "The Russian higher education is the best in the world." Russian students and faculty who were abroad to see, which is often different. While many technical institutes in Russia today also show excellence, but the humanities faculties are mostly old strongholds of Marxist ideologues and dogmatic left. Even Moscow's elite universities are here no exception. Because of the miserable salaries far too few young scientists choose a university career.
"What we did in the Soviet Union and was researching what the West is different as heaven and earth," says Rustem Nureyev, a professor at the Moscow School of Economics. Many teachers came in the early 90s for the first time with Western literature in contact, from which they were cut off for decades. After the collapse of the Soviet Union are professors of political economy or Marxist-Leninist philosophy relearn suddenly - a feat which many failed.
By far not all scholars had as much stamina as Nureyev, who flew in the 90s several times to study in Britain and the London School of Business took off again exam. "It's pretty difficult to sit down as a professor with over 40 in addition to 20-year-old students in the lecture hall and listen to lectures with them." Back in Moscow began Nureyev and other scientists in Moscow who had it razed to write their own textbooks and to pass their new knowledge in Russia.
but no one was forced to training. High school teachers, the intellectual ancient food dish need to either before sanctions by the faculty administrations before a boycott to be afraid of their lectures and seminars. For the highly regimented Russian university system provides no academic freedom for students on the Western model.
focal point for the new Eternal yesteryear to the Russian Igor Frojanow universities was, until this summer, Dean of the Faculty of History at the St. Petersburg University. The National Communist purged its faculty over the years by all faculty and staff, whose liberal ideas or contacts with the West appeared to him suspicious.
"The old ideology has mutated," says Vyacheslav Woltschik from Rostov on Don. To him the doctorate was granted only after a crucial vote in the dissertation committee because he had demonstrated in his work that independent farmers to work more effectively than the employees of the ailing collective farm system. "Today we have a mess of Western theories, Marxist thinking and patriotic rhetoric," he says.
Woltschik has personally experienced the debate in Moscow as members of the Academy of Sciences on a completely unique way for the Russian patriotic economics. "All of these discussions," criticized Woltschik, "have to do with science about as much as bullfighting with cattle." (01/04/2002)
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