An economist of socialist economic integration and reform
He later argued that stagnation in the Soviet economy gave perestroika its first impulse.
Oleg Bogomolov was a Soviet economist and academic institution-builder who studied international economic relations within the socialist world. His comparative work on Hungarian and Yugoslav reforms examined both the rigidity of planned management and the possible uses of market mechanisms. In 1983, when Yuri Andropov initiated preparations for economic reform, Bogomolov joined the relevant commission and supplied expertise to its deliberations. He later argued for gradual reform that combined markets with social protection, widening the economic options considered during perestroika.
Career Timeline
- 1949Graduated from the Institute of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Trade
- 1954Received a candidate degree in economics
- 1962–1969Worked in the CPSU Central Committee apparatus and foreign-trade institutions
- 1967–1977Headed the Chair of Economic Geography of Foreign Socialist Countries at Moscow State University
- 1969–1991Director of the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System
- 1981Elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- 1983Joined the commission preparing Andropov-era economic reform
- 1989–1991Deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR