Background
VARGA, Yevgeniy was born on November 6, 1879 in Hungary.
VARGA, Yevgeniy was born on November 6, 1879 in Hungary.
1906-1920 member, Hungarian Social-Democratic Party. Participated in 2nd Communist International Congress. Active in Communist International.
Presented papers at 1922 and 1924 Communist International Congresses. 1922-1923 joined in great theoretical dispute over relation between commodity prices and value of gold. 1927 full member, Communist Academy.
Author, many publications, articles and market reviews devoted to economics and political situation in capitalist and colonial countries. Works frequently censured: 1922 by Lenin for his work “Problemy ekonomicheskoy politiki pri proletarskoy diktature” (Problems of Economic Policy Under a Proletarian Dictatorship) (1922). 1925 by V. P. Milyutin in article “The Revisionism of Comrade Varga on the Agrarian Question” for recognizing a “law of diminishing fertility of the soil”.
1947 Soviet press accused him of bourgeois reformism for work “Izmeneniya v ekonomike kapitalizma v itoge vtoroy mirovoy voyny” (Changes in the Economics of Capitalism as a Result of World War II) (1946). Removed from post as Director, Institute of World Economics, and the Institute and journal “Mirovaya ckonomika i mirovaya politika”, publications by him, were abolished. 1949 forced to confess his “errors”.
1950 again commissioned to help plan Hungarian economics. 1956 Institute of Economics restored and Varga takes active part in its work. 1906-1918 permanent contributor, then Editor, economic section of the organ of the Social-Democratic Party of Hungary “Nepszava”, and contributor to newspaper “Neue Zeit”.
1918-1919 Professor, of Political Economics at Budapest University. 1919-1920 Commissar of Finance, then Chairman, Higher Economics Council of Hungarian Soviet Republic. 1920-1922 worked at Communist International compiling reviews of world economics, printed in German in the Communist International organ “Internationale PresseKorrespondenz” and published as separate brochures in Russian.
1922-1927 worked for Plenipotentiary and Trade Agency in Berlin. 1924-1925 edited Communist International’s “Yezhegodnik” (Year-Book) and collective works “Ocherki po agramomu voprosy” (Surveys on the Agrarian Question), “Agramoe dvizhenie v kapitalisticheskikh stranakh” (The Agrarian Movement in the Capitalist Countries) (1925), and “Sotsial-demokraticheskie partii” (The Social-Democratic Parties) (1927). 1927-1947 Director, Institute of World Economic and World Political, USSR Academy of Science, until its amalgamation with the Institute of Economics.
Chief Editor, journal “Mirovoe khozyaystvo i mirovaya politika” (World Economy and World Politics) of the Institute of Economics.
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.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.
The system with equal access of every Soviet citizen to national wealth can be created under the leadership of the Communist Party.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1939. Communist Party member from 1920.