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Polish Economists in Nehru's India: Making Science for the Third World in an Era of De-Stalinization and Decolonization

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Małgorzata Mazurek
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Abstract

Between 1956–68 economic expertise became Poland's key export product in the decolonizing world. India, a broker of social science in the Cold War, became a geopolitical gateway for Polish economists’ spread of developmental thinking that revived heterodox Marxism and peasant studies. In this article, Małgorzata Mazurek investigates epistemic and intellectual effects of Polish – Indian encounters and how they evolved separately from Soviet Third World politics. Mazurek argues that during de-Stalinization and decolonization, failures and obstacles to planning and land reforms came to be seen as a common ground between eastern Europe and South Asia. This shared perception also revived the historical legacy of central and east European social science, which was internationalized in new ways both because, and in spite, of the Cold War.

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Beyond the Iron Curtain: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War
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Slavic Review , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , Fall 2018 , pp. 588 - 610
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2018 

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Theodora Dragostinova and Małgorzata Fidelis, the organizers of this cluster and of the conference at the Ohio State University “Iron Curtain Crossings: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War.” I also want to thank the organizers and participants of the Columbia University workshop “Global Circuits of Expertise and the Making of the Post-1945 World: Eastern European and Asian Perspectives,’” where I discussed the preliminary version of this article; my colleagues Deborah Coen, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, and Maria Bucur for their helpful feedback and suggestions; anonymous reviewers; and finally Ignacy Sachs, who first told me about Polish economists in India.

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