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https://archive.org/stream/workersvanguard19spar/workersvanguard19spar_djvu.txt Why have the Armenian Stalinist bureaucrats become so assertive in pushing their national claims? Because they believe that Gorbachev’s policies will strengthen their standing, that Armenians are the favored children of perestroika. A march to mourn the Armenian victims of the communalist riots in Sumgait carried signs saying “the pogroms at Sumgait were carried out by the enemies of perestroika." And the main intellectual architect of pere- stroika, Armenian economist Abel Abanbegyan, pushed a government commission which recommended that Karabakh rejoin Armenia.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/magazine/on-the-road-with-gorbachev-s-guru.html Hedrick Smith ABEL G. AGANBEGYAN, ECONOMIC guru and brain-truster to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev

a large, lumbering Armenian with a thick thatch of wavy black hair

at Chicago Board of Trade, Aganbegyan was asserting more vigorously than ever Moscow's need for a free "commodity market," with supply and demand. "We're going to have a market for all of the factors of production, from raw materials to machine tools to consumer durables, everything, to replace the centralized distribution system," Aganbegyan declared.

In a whirlwind 16-day tour ending March 7, Aganbegyan journeyed from Wall Street to Los Angeles, from Washington to Minneapolis, from Chicago to the edge of California's Silicon Valley - shopping for ideas and for business. He was bridge-building, and perhaps checking a potential itinerary for a future visit by Gorbachev.

Aganbegyan is the economic architect of perestroika, Gorbachev's ambitious program of restructuring the Soviet economy, as well as a key speechwriter for the Soviet leader, he has no high governmental or party position

Some Western experts believe Gorbachev wanted to install Aganbegyan as chief of the economic department of the Communist Party Central Committee, but was blocked by conservatives.

So Aganbegyan operates as secretary of the Economics Department of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, dean of reform-minded economists. His main avenue of influence is as head of the scientific section of the Commission for the Improvement of Management, Planning and the Economic Mechanism, the body that drafts plans for perestroika. That makes him Gorbachev's guru

Over almost three decades, Aganbegyan has become known among Soviet intellectuals and foreign specialists as the leading maverick Soviet economist - a loyal socialist, but an independent-minded scholar who stolidly has refused to bend economic facts to fit ideology.

He told a group of Americans that he had been reprimanded for comments he made at a dinner in Paris last year with a group of French Armenians. He was quoted by L'Humanite, the French Communist newspaper, as saying that the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Azerbaijani republic deserved to be linked to the Armenian republic. ... During this trip, he avoided direct comments on the issue.

Aganbegyan's personal life has also been troubled. His Armenian father, he revealed, abandoned him and his mother at birth, and he was raised for eight years by his grandparents in Tbilisi, while his mother was a university student in Moscow. He rejoined her in 1940 but they were separated again when Nazi forces menaced Moscow in late 1941. He was evacuated to an orphanage in Alma-Ata, in Central Asia, where he lived for four years, often grubbing for turnips because of food shortages.

Childhood memories have left Aganbegyan acutely sensitive to Soviet food problems, and he is donating earnings from the American edition of his book, The Economic Challenge of Perestroika, to an orphanage.

But Aganbegyan does not foresee unbridled capitalism. We don't have any objection to people becoming rich, he told San Francisco business reporters. But we are a socialist country. We're not going to permit the use of hired labor where the worker contributes a share of what he earns from his labor to the profits of the boss. His view of acceptable capitalism is family businesses or cooperatives where all share in the profits.

IN HIS HUNT FOR NEW ideas and new investments, Aganbegyan has become the Flying Dutchman of perestroika. Last year he logged more than 150,000 miles at home and abroad. In recent years, he has been to America, Japan, West Germany, Britain, France, Sweden and Austria.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/31/books/revolution-not-reform.html Abel Aganbegyan is probably the Soviet economist who is best known in the West.

With Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power, Mr. Aganbegyan moved to Moscow and he is now director of the economics section of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and one of the major spokesmen for economic reform in the Soviet Union.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/11/world/a-test-of-change-explodes-in-soviet.html They have better connections, said Velayat M. Kuliyev, an Azerbaijani writer and deputy director of the Azerbaijan Literary Institute in Baku. He cited as examples Mr. Balayan and Abel G. Aganbegyan, Mr. Gorbachev's chief economics theorist.

EDITORIAL https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/23/opinion/this-year-s-economist.html Mr. Aganbegyan is a visionary, among the first to admit centralized controls could not work. But his understanding of markets is wooden. He has called for price reform but would keep most prices regulated. He has called for free capital markets but would prohibit selling shares.

Despite his blind spots, Mr. Aganbegyan was a critical force behind Mr. Gorbachev's fateful decision in 1987 to permit managers to exercise more control over production -- an irreversible reform.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/18/business/soviet-economists-say-shift-to-free-market-is-inevitable.html "All conservatives understand that going back is impossible because the command system has been destroyed," said Abel Aganbegyan, president of the Soviet Academy of National Economy. "The old system was a bad system. Everyone knows that."

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/06/opinion/the-next-soviet-challenge.html Abel Aganbegyan, an economic adviser to whom Mikhail Gorbachev doesn't listen anymore, put it mildly to participants at the World Economic Forum here. "The choice is establishing the market in the Soviet Union or chaos, nothing else," he said

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/19/world/evolution-in-europe-proposal-by-gorbachev-wins-committee-votes.html The compromise plan is now in the hands of Mr. Aganbegyan, a burly Armenian who was an early member of Mr. Gorbachev's economic team. Conservatives in the government reportedly engineered his exile from the inner circle in 1988 after he was accused of encouraging Armenian nationalists in their conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/08/world/reporter-s-notebook-cheers-and-barbs-in-russia.html Aganbegyan, a large man of impressive girth with the jet-black hair of his Armenian ancestry and the conservative suit of a successful executive

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/02/books/a-coroners-report.html WHAT WENT WRONG WITH PERESTROIKA By Marshall I. Goldman.258 pp. New York:W. W Norton & Company. In a book filled with portraits, the brush and pen are often effective. Describing Mr. Gorbachev's long line of economic advisers -- first Abel Aganbegyan, then Leonid Abalkin, then Nikolai Petrakov, then Grigory Yavlinsky, then Stanislav Shatalin, then Abel Aganbegyan again and so on -- Mr. Goldman not only gives us a vivid picture gallery of these frustrated scholars-turned-politicians........

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Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked Marshall I. Goldman — 1994 · Business & Economics 7 Clearly impressed with Aganbegyan , Gorbachev made him his unofficial economic adviser . Aganbegyan worked closely with Gorbachev in the summer of 1984

Envoy to Moscow: Memories of an Israeli Ambassador, 1988-92 Aryeh Levin — 2014 · History The Russians had hidden potential and ability and would forge ahead in spite of their inherited pessimism. He also quoted Abel Aganbegyan, Gorbachev's close

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http://journals.sagepub.com › pdf Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia - SAGE Journals In parallel, Aganbegyan, Gorbachev's economic adviser, who in. November 1987 lectured at Chatham House, has pronounced himself in favour of

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