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VOLOBUYEV, Mikhail was born in 1900.
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Mikhail VOLOBUYEV
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Lectured at Khar’kov Institute of National Economy. Also associate, All-Ukraine Pedagogical Research Institute. 1928 theoretical organ of Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine, journal “Bil’shovyk Ukrainy” published his work “On the Problems of the Ukrainian Economy”, rejecting the dogma of the unity of the Imperialist Russian economics prior to the revol and demonstrating that the Ukraine was “a historically formed, economic organism” which had its own paths of development and needed independence of existence even in the “socialist stage of development”.
Also demonstrated Ukraine’s colonial dependence on Soviet Russia and stressed the need to ensure “Ukraine economics centers their rights and opportunities to effectively manage the entire national economy”. Urged abolition of the system whereby industry was managed by All-Union trusts in Moscow and stressed that the Ukraine government alone should approve the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic’s budget and control the Ukraine economics. Staunchly advocated economics independence of Soviet Ukraine.
His arguments were termed “nationalistic” and a massiv campaign was launched against him. Was accused of furnishing economics justification for “nationalist deviationism” in the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine (“Shumskyism” was regarded as the political embodiment, and “Khvylyovyism” as the cultural embodiment of “nationalist deviation”). Although he had no connection with either Shumskiy or Khvylyovyy, he was nevertheless lumped together with them, 1928, after scathing criticism by Soviet and Party authorities, he published in “Bil’shovyk Ukrainy” a letter recanting his views.
1930 published in this periodical the article “Against the Economic Platform of Nationalism", borrowing official arguments to attack his own views, now known as “Volobuyevism”. With the suppression of Ukraine national Communism, he was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan. Further fate unknown.
Religion
Religions convince people that the source of their misery lies in the inherent and unchangeable "sinfulness" of humanity rather than in the forms of social organization and institutions.
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With the establishment of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and Asia, capitalism lost its dominance as an economic system.
