A. V. ANIKIN AS A HISTORIAN OF ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC DOCTRINES

The article presents an assessment by Anikin A.V. the development of economic science in the USSR and Russia in the 40–90-e years of the XX century, its interpretation of the backwardness of Russian economic thought from the global evolution of economic theory. The authors note that in the memoirs of A. V. Anikina history of economic thought is present- ed live, the «humanized»: the famous economists, for whom A. V. Anikin observed in differ- ent situations, not only great scientists, but also a bright personality. Memories of Andrei Vladimirovich help us to understand their human characteristics, some of their human weak- nesses, create in our mind the personal background of their intellectual activity