| Abstract [eng] |
The paper critically surveys the historical research on the capitalist development of Lithuania in the Soviet time, inspired by the official Marxist-Leninist doctrine, and elaborates several suggestions how it could be fruitfully continued, using as sources of inspiration the economic sociological ideas of Max Weber, Joseph A. Schumpeter, neo-Marxian world- system analysis and Alexander Chayanov's theory of peasant economy. The first section contains a brief out1ine of the classical Marxian idea of capitalism and its modification in the works by Vladimir Lenin which, joint1y with the programmatic statements of the Communist party, were obligatory for historians working on the modem history of Lithuania in the Soviet time. So, according to the Marxist-Leninist historiography, Lithuania, after ashort prelude of the free-competition capitalism after the abolition of serfdom in 1861, together with Russia entered the stage of the imperialistic monopolistic capitalism by the beginning of the zo« century. lt was a state mo- nopolist economy on a par with the most developed countries of the West, becoming ripe for the socialist revolution by 1940. The second section introduces the concept of the rational entrepreneurial capitalism (REC), grounded in the work of M. Weber and J.A. Schumpeter, and uses it for the critical reconstruction of the Marxian view of capitalist development, finding in the economic history of the capitalist world system core countries five evolutionary types of REC, corresponding to five Kondratieff's waves (REC 1.0 - 5.0) since the industrial revolution in the late 18th century. .. |
