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Soviet economist, political activist and analyst, Varga was born in Nagytétény, Hungary, on 6 November 1879, and died in Moscow on 7 November 1964. He was a college teacher, economic journalist, Professor of Political Economy (1918) and People’s Commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. He was forced to leave Hungary in the first days of August 1919 for Austria (where he was detained for several months). While in exile, he worked for the Secretariat of the Communist International in Moscow and the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin. From 1927 to 1947 he held the position of Director of the Institute of World Economy and World Politics, and from 1929 to 1964 he was a Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
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Nötel, R. (2018). Varga, Evgeny (Jenö) (1879–1964). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1398
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