Persons who were engaged in state-building should be judged 50 years after their death. Yes, political scientists and sociologists are aware of this approach. However, the figure of Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is so bright and ambiguous that it is impossible to withstand such a long pause for an average expert. So is he to blame or not? The famous reformer and entrepreneur lives in peace.
Standard start
According to the official biography, Anatoly Chubais was born in the city of Borisov, in Belarus, on June 16, 1955. He already had an older brother Igor. Father is a military man, mother is an economist. The colonel’s family of tank troops had to move from one garrison to another more than once. It so happened that the child became a first grader in Odessa, and graduated from high school in Leningrad. Having received secondary education, he entered the local engineering and economic institute. After defending his diploma, in 1977, he remained within the walls of Alma Mater as an assistant and became a candidate member of the CPSU.
Anatoly Borisovich seriously thought about the career of a scientist and with all his might sought for the intended goal. The object of the study was the weaknesses of the country's economic mechanism. At the same time, I had to get acquainted with the monetary methods of managing a market economy. The young and energetic Chubais managed to deal with organizational issues and scientific analysis of processes in the national economy. The work was carried out in different directions. In 1983, he defended his thesis on the topic of improving planning methods.
Three years after the defense, Anatoly was one of the founders of the Perestroika club in Leningrad. The young scientist knew well how industry and agriculture live in the country, by what criteria are the results evaluated and on what grounds are planned targets for industries. Nothing of the kind was observed in countries with a market-based mechanism for managing the economy. In 1988, Chubais trained for ten months in Hungary and thoroughly adopted the principles of farming that were promoted by the famous Austrian economists Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek.
