Liberal Economic School Representatives in Russian Emigration of 1920s-1930s on Way of Solving the Peasants'' Question in Russia in the Early XX Century
The search of new ways of development in Russian agricultural sector requires modern interpretation and reconsideration of the works of Russian liberal immigrant scholars in 1920-s and 1930-s. The present article deals with the views of Russian immigrant scholars on the causes of the crisis in Russian rural areas in the early 20th century and possible ways of how to get over it. I give special prominence to liberal assessment of the consequences of the peasant reform, to the tragic life of rural community, to the vectors of development of peasant holding and cooperation. In my article, I prove liberal economists considered; unlike their opponents that the main reasons for the crisis were the absence of free market, overpopulated rural areas and reactionary of the regime that restrained private farming initiatives. The development of liberal school of thought in exile is marked by the affluence of research, the diversity of scholar schools and the considerable amount of literature both - translated and in the original. A number of findings done by liberal scholars are still topical and might be used by modern theoreticians and practicians working in the field of agrarian reforms both in Russia and abroad.