The Origins of the National Idea in Soviet State Economic Ideology in the Views of L.N. Kritsman

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate, through a historical-economic research approach, that the intellectual legacy of the prominent Soviet Russian economist L.N. Kritsman must be recognized as one of the foundational sources of the national idea in Soviet state economic ideology. Special attention is given to the innovative theoretical, methodological, and reformist aspects of Kritsman’s political-economic works, which embody both rational and irrational elements of the Soviet national idea, centered on state economic ideology. The findings of this research allow for two key conclusions. First, Kritsman’s “Bolshevik” political-economic writings promoted ideologically driven constructs, rooted exclusively in class-based Marxist-Leninist economic reasoning. Second, his ideas on the “organization of the national economy of Soviet Russia” — aimed at the universal replacement of capitalist enterprise management with workers' control — remained dominant for over seven decades within the framework of the “proletarian” economic ideology at the national level.