The paper analyses the reception of the idea of convergence in Soviet economics from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. It is predominantly concerned with convergence theory as a policy idea that inspired perestroika. The paper is related to the literature on ideas and institutional change as pioneered by Peter A. Hall and Mark Blyth. Its central question is: How could, under the conditions of an authoritarian regime, an imported policy idea that bluntly contradicted official ideology, reach a degree of dissemination and (among a specific stratum of the elite) popularity that would later turn it into a central pillar of reform policy? An important finding is that the idea of convergence united the Soviet “people of the sixties” and some Western “progressive” intellectuals who together formed a transregional epistemic community that only for a short period of time, at the end of the 1980s, gained political influence.

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Shestidesyatniki 经济学、融合理念和改革

本文分析了从 60 年代到 80 年代末苏联经济学对趋同思想的接受情况。它主要关注融合理论作为激发改革的政策理念。该论文与 Peter A. Hall 和 Mark Blyth 开创的有关思想和制度变革的文献有关。它的核心问题是：在专制政权的条件下，一个与官方意识形态相矛盾的外来政策思想怎么可能，达到一定程度的传播和（在特定的精英阶层中）受欢迎程度，然后将其转变为改革政策的核心支柱？一个重要的发现是，融合的思想将苏联“六十年代人民”和一些西方“进步”知识分子联合起来，形成了一个跨地区的认知共同体，仅在 1980 年代末的短时间内，获得了政治影响。