Open AccessThe birth of Western European economic integration and the creation of COMECON: General and distinctive
Author(s) -
Ivan G. Zhiryakov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lokus: lûdi, obŝestvo, kulʹtury, smysly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2500-2988
DOI - 10.31862/2500-2988-2020-11-3-54-68
Subject(s) - reinterpretation , economic integration , politics , work (physics) , european integration , history , political science , economics , aesthetics , law , european union , art , engineering , international trade , mechanical engineering
The article examines the history of the origin of Western European economic integration and Eastern European “socialist integration” in the second half of the 1940s of the twentieth century. The study of this history is determined by the need for scientific reinterpretation of established ideas about the most important historical processes, as well as the modern need to extract positive experience from the past through historical analysis. This work, based on the publications of various political orientations, with the involvement of published and archival documents, is one of the first attempts to clarify not only the distinctive, but also common in the history of institutional construction of two economic integration models.