Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

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Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
Михаил Туган-Барановский
Secretary of Finance
In office
August 13, 1917 – November 20, 1917
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded byKhrystofor Baranovsky
Succeeded byVasyl Mazurenko (temporary)
Personal details
Born(1865-01-20)January 20, 1865
Kharkov University
Occupationacademician, statesman, public activist

Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (Russian: Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский; Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Туган-Барановський, romanized: Mykhailo Ivanovych Tuhan-Baranovskyi; January 20, 1865 - January 21, 1919) was a Russian[1][2] and Ukrainian Marxist, economist, and politician.

He was a leading exponent of Legal Marxism in the Russian Empire and was the author of numerous works dealing with the theory of value, the distribution of a social revenue, history of managerial development, and fundamentals of cooperative managerial activities.

After the

Central Council of Ukraine
.

Early life

Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky was born on 8 January 1865 in the village of

Lipka Tatars who had come to Lithuania in the 14th century; the full family name was Tugan Mirza Baranovsky.[3]

Tugan-Baranovsky attended high school in the cities of

Tsarism in Russia, briefly making the acquaintance of Vladimir Lenin's older brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was executed in 1887 for his part in the attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander III.[4]

In November 1886 Tugan-Baranovsky was arrested for participating in a student demonstration in

St. Petersburg Conservatory, Lydia Davydova, in 1889.[5]

Academic career

Shortly after his marriage, Tugan-Baranovsky began what would be a long running and esteemed academic career. His first scholarly article, "The Doctrine of the Marginal Utility of Economic Goods", saw print in October 1890 in the journal Iuridicheskii Vestnik (Jurisprudence Courier).[6] In this work, which presaged his later criticism of Marxism, Tugan-Baranovsky argued that the labor theory of value and contemporary Marginalist economics were in basic agreement rather than in antagonistic opposition.[7]

After this first foray into theoretical economics, Tugan-Baranovsky turned his hand to the writing of biography, contributing short popular sketches of

Louis Napoleon.[9] He was much more sympathetic to Mill, hailing the economist as one who "more than anyone else helped the spread throughout the civilized world of a right understanding of the spirit of contemporary science, based on the study of nature."[10]

Following the intellectual example of

Moscow University.[12]

The achievement of this academic rank allowed Tugan-Baranovsky to gain employment in academia, accepting an appointment as a Privatdozent (lecturer) at St. Petersburg University.[13] In 1898 he published The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century. This was the first volume of a planned more extensive work dealing with the impact of factory life on Russian society. According to his student and biographer Nikolai Kondratiev, Tugan-Baranovsky retained this position until 1899, when he was dismissed for political unreliability.[14] Nevertheless he announced that he was planning a second volume with material of a more theoretical nature in the preface to the 2nd edition published in 1900. Opinions vary as regards whether a draft manuscript of volume II was ever written.[15]

In 1917 Tugan published a book "Paper Currency and Metal", where he presented a theory of fiat paper currency, believing that a new stage in monetary history after the war was coming. He connected the value of fiat currency with the business cycle and with aggregate demand. He proposed active monetary policy, mainly through exchange rate control. In many respects he could be considered as a forerunner of the theory of endogenous money.[16]

Political activities

In 1895, Tugan-Baranovsky and his co-thinker

narodnik critics such as Vasily Vorontsov and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky.[18]
In April 1900, Tugan-Baranovsky participated in the organizational meeting to create the
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.[19] While he consistently expressed Marxist economic and political ideas in this period, there is no indication that Tugan-Baranovsky ever joined the underground Social Democratic movement which was then emerging in Russia.[18]

It was also during this time that his "magnum opus", The Russian Factory in Past and Present appeared.

Moscow University
.

From 1901 to 1905, Tugan-Baranovsky participated in the public life of the Poltava region where he joined the local zemstvo (a form of local government). Later he returned to St. Petersburg, lecturing as private docent and as professor in the economics departments of various local polytechnic and commercial institutes and also at the private university of Shaniavsky in Moscow.

After February

Kiev. The member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
(1918), a head of social-economic department (1919).

Interest in Neokantianism

Monument to M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky (near Donetsk Commercial University).

During the early years of the 20th century he completely moved away from the popular views of legal Marxism towards the

neokantianism that is reflected in his various works regarding the cooperative movement. In 1901–1902, Tugan-Baranovsky published his "Notes from the History of Political Economics" in the journal Narodnoe Bagatstvo (National Wealth), where he described the history of economics doctrines in the Russian Empire
, and "Notes of the Newest History in Political Economics" (1903). This work was translated into German in 1915. Later he published various other works in Russian and German as well.

In 1919 his first publication in

Mykhailo Hrushevskyi and other Ukrainian academicians, on the encyclopedia Ukrainsky narod v ego proshlom i nastoyaschem ("The Ukrainian Nation in its Past and Present"). As the member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Federalists quit the General Secretariat on 20 November 1917 in the protest to the proclamation of the Third Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council that advocated a wider autonomy to Ukraine
.

Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky was one of the founders of the

National Academy of Science of Ukraine, as well as the Secretary of Finance of the Ukrainian People's Republic
.

Death

In January 1919, while en route via train to attend the

Paris Peace Conference, Tugan-Baranovsky suffered a fatal heart attack.[22]

Publications

In English

In German

  • Michael Tugan-Baranovsky (1900). Geschichte der russischen Fabrik (PDF) (in German). Berlin: Emil Felber.
  • Michael Tugan-Baranovsky (1901). Studien zur Theorie und Geschichte der Handelskrisen in England (in German). Jena.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Michael Tugan-Baranovsky (1905). Theoretische Grundlagen des Marxismus (PDF) (in German). Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
  • Michael Tugan-Baranovsky (1921). Die kommunistischen Gemeinwesen der Neuzeit (PDF) (in German). Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes.

Footnotes

  1. ISBN 978-1-136-54520-7
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1-317-14611-7
    .
  3. ^ A.V. Tyrkova-Williams, Na putiakh k svobode (On the Path to Freedom). New York: 1942; p. 38. Cited in Richard Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists: A Study of 'Legal Marxism' in Russia. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1962; p. 52.
  4. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 52.
  5. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 53.
  6. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pp. 53-54.
  7. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 54.
  8. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pp. 54-55.
  9. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 55.
  10. ^ M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky, J.S. Mill, p. 71. Quoted in Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pp. 55–56.
  11. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pp. 56–57.
  12. ^ a b c Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 57.
  13. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 58.
  14. ^ N.D. Kondratiev, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky. St. Petersburg: 1923; p. 115. Cited in Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 58, fn. 4.
  15. ^ Kowal, L. M. (1972). "M. I. Tugan Baranowski: The Russian Factory in the 19th Century (Book Review)". Journal of European Economic History (3). Rome.
  16. ^ "Nenovsky Nikolay. Discussion-on-paper-currency-among-russian-economists-during-the-great-war-19141917-with-special-emphasis-on-tugan-baranovsky-s-contributions»".
  17. ^ Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pp. 58–59.
  18. ^ a b Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, p. 59.
  19. ^ М.И. Воейков. НАСЛЕДИЕ М .И. ТУГАН-БАРАНОВСКОГО
  20. ^ Michael Tugan-Baranovsky (1900). Geschichte der russischen Fabrik (PDF) (in German). Berlin: Emil Felber.
  21. ^ In English: The Russian Factory in the 19th Century, translated by Arthur Levin, Claora S. Levin and Gregory Grossman, Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, 1970.
  22. S2CID 144331114
    . Retrieved 14 May 2017.

Further reading

  • Ablitsov, Vitalii, Galaktika 'Ukraina': Ukrains'ka diaspora: vidatni postati. Kyiv: KIT, 2007.
  • Barnett, Vincent, "Tugan-Baranovsky as a Pioneer of Trade Cycle Analysis," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 23 no. 4 (Dec. 2001), pp. 443–466.
  • Bernstein E. Tugan-Baranowsky als Sozialist. Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, vol. XXVIII (T.-B. as Socialist. Archive for Social Science and Social Politics) 1909;
  • Bukharin, N. Theoretical conciliation. Political Economy Rant. Theory of value and profit of Austrian School. pp. 176–185. 1919. At www.esperanto.mv.ru/Marksismo/index.html (in Russian)
  • Diel К. Dr. Michael Tugan-Baranowskys theoretische Grundlagen des Marxismus. Jahrbücher fur Nationalökonomie und Statistik, vol. XXXI (Dr. T.-B., theoretical fundamentalist of Marxism. Yearbook for the National Economy and Statistics). Jena 1906;
  • Дмитриев В. Новый русский трактат по теории политической экономии. Русская Мысль, book XI. 1909;
  • Голдман М. Туган-Барановщина: к критике буржуазной политической экономии. П. 1926;
  • Gerschenkron A. Die Genossenschaftstheorie Tugan-Baranowskis. Vierteljahrschrift für Genossenschaften, parts 3–4. 1929–30;
  • Gotz W. Zum ökonomischen System Tugan-Baranowsky. Riga 1930;
  • Качор А. М. І. Туган-Барановський. Winnipeg 1969;
  • Kondratiev, N. Mikhail Tugan-Baranovskii. Petrograd: 1923.
  • Kowal L. M. I. Tuhan-Baranowsky, His Political Teaching, Scientific and Cooperative Activity in Ukraine, 1917–1919. НЗ УТГІ. Munich 1968–69;
  • Kowal L. The Market and Business Cycle Theories of M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky. Revista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commercial!, vol. 20, part 4. Padova 1973.
  • Курский Л. Теория рынка и промышленных кризисовъ М. И. Туган-Барановскаго. М. 1916;
  • Luxemburg, R. Dis-proportionality of Mr. Tuhan-Baranovsky. Accumulation of Capital (Chapter 23), vol. I. Translated by Dvolaitsky, Sh. State Social-Economical Publishing, Moscow. 1934. Opinion of Rosa Liuxemburg on Tuhan's Theories of Economical crisis in England (in Russian)
  • Michaelides, P., Milios, J. and Vouldis, A. (2007), Emil Lederer and the Schumpeter, Hilferding, Tugan-Baranowsky Nexus, Research Workshop in Political Economy, International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy, organized by : University of London and University of Crete, Rethymnon, 14–16 September.
  • Michaelides, P., Milios, J. and Vouldis, A. (2007), Schumpeter and Lederer on Economic Growth, Technology and Credit, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference, Porto, 2007, 1–3 November (CD-ROM).
  • Michaelides, P., Milios, J. and Vouldis, A. (2007), Schumpeter, Lederer and Hilferding, on Economic Development, Credit and Business Cycles, 9th International Conference of Greek Historians of Economic Thought, University of Macedonia, 11–12 May.
  • Мицюк О. Наукова діяльність політико-економіста М. І. Туган-Барановського. Л. 1931;
  • Moisseev M. L'évolution d'une doctrine. La theorie des crises de Tougan-Baranoysky et la conception moderne des crises économiques. Revue d'histoire économique et sociale. vol. XX. Paris 1932;
  • Nenovsky, N. Place of Labor and Labor Theory in Tugan Baranovsky's Theoretical System, The Kyoto Economic Review, Vol. 78 (2009), No.1 pp. 53–77.
  • Nenovsky, N. Discussion on paper currency among Russian economists during the Great War (1914–1917) with special emphasis on Tugan - Baranovsky’s contributions, Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique, vol. 2 no. 10 pp. 103–140, 2020
  • Птуха М. Туган-Барановский как экономист. Кооперативная Зоря, parts 4–5. К. 1919;
  • Timoshenko V. M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky and Western European Economic Thought. The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.A. vol. З, part 9. New-York 1954;
  • Tschebotareff V. Untersuchungen über die Krisentheorie von Michael von Tugan-Baranowsky. Вюрцбурґ 1936;
  • Wytanowicz E. M. I. Tuhan-Baranowski: teoretyk-ekonomista, historyk kapitalizmu, socjolog, twórca teoretycznych podstaw idei spółdzielczej. Roczniki dziejów społecznych і gospodarczych, vol. І. Л. 1931;
Preceded by General Secretary of Finance of Ukraine
August 14, 1917–November 20, 1917 		Succeeded by
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