E.A. Preobrazhensky From Ostracism To Rehabilitation And Scientific Recognition

The article touches upon the problem of theoretical heritage of Russian economists of the 1920s in the context of the "homoactivus principle", namely, scientists-innovators in the field of fundamental and applied knowledge.The fate of statesman and original economist-theorist Evgeny Alekseevich Preobrazhensky, whose conceptual speculations in the field of economic theory and practice could have become the transcendental basis of the theory of convergence of economic systems and, at the same time, the mainstream of socialist economics, is at the centre of the study.The obstacle to this phenomenal search was the bogeyman of "Trotskyist theorist" and, as a consequence, the rejection of his original hypotheses and bold ideas, both "on the right" and "on the left".The relevance of addressing the historical experience of the search for conceptual support of social transformations is dictated by a number of circumstances similar to the modern period related to the search for socially oriented economic strategies.The proposed article does not allow a detailed analysis of the economist's innovative views.The novelty of the study lies in the authors' attempt to reconstruct the conflict between the scientist and the authorities by means of introducing new archival documents into the scientific turnover.As a result of the reconstructed historical context, the conclusion is made about the tragic content of the synergistic effect of science and politics in the circumstances of bifurcation of the transitional period of society development.