Institute of World Economy and World Politics, USSR Academy of Sciences

It was founded in 1925 at the Communist Academy .

In 1931, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks) decided that IMHiMP should become a center for research and development in the field of world economic and political problems. In 1929, the institute staffed 31 people, in 1933 - already 192 people, including technical personnel. Since the end of the 1920s, IMHiMP activities have been carried out through open and closed channels. Open source developments were presented in monographs, brochures and statistical reviews published by his staff, as well as in the articles of the Yearbook of World Economy and World Politics and the monthly journal World Economy and World Politics, published since 1936 (in 1925–1935 the magazine was published by the Department Economics and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). Closed materials were sent to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Council of People's Commissars, the Executive Committee and the Secretariat of the Comintern , the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR , the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the USSR and others. The top Soviet leaders were the top Soviet leaders I. V. Stalin , V. M. Molotov , M.M. Litvinov (until 1939), A.I. Mikoyan .

With the outbreak of war, he was evacuated to Tashkent, while the task force, led by E.S. Varga, was located in Kuibyshev . After the defeat of the Germans near Moscow, the group returned to the capital in early 1942, where the main staff of the institute returned a year later.

The institute was liquidated in 1947 without any explanation by decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) ^[1] . On October 4, 1947, the Institute of World Economy and World Politics and the Institute of Economics were combined into a single Institute of Economics in the system of the Academy of Sciences under the scientific and organizational guidance of the USSR State Planning Commission ^[2] . Chairman of the State Planning Commission N. A. Voznesensky is called the initiator of this reorganization ^[3] .

The newly created Institute of World Economy and International Relations in 1956 was formed on the basis of the corresponding sectors of the Institute of Economics.

The Institute was headed by:

• Acad. Rotshtein, Fedor Aronovich (1924-1925)
• Acad. Osinsky, Valerian Valerianovich (1926-1927)
• Acad. Varga, Evgeny Samuilovich (1927-1947)

The director of the Institute, academician E. S. Varga, embarked on the path of "cultural tribulation", deeply alien to Soviet scientists and forgetting the party nature of science, believed that the Institute should publish as many purely informational works about capitalist countries as possible. The employees were mainly required to select facts from the economies of the capitalist countries, while the Marxist analysis of these facts was neglected.

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• Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS

• Kaplan V. I. The most important events in international life and the activities of the Institute of World Economy and World Politics (1925–1948). - M .: 1991.
• Cherkasov P.P. IMEMO. Portrait on the background of the era. - M .: All World, 2004 .-- 572 p. - ISBN 5-7777-0279-1 . ( chapter 1 )