N. P. Oganovsky’s Theory of Agrarian Evolution and Geopolitical Economy of Historical Process

The paper reconstructs and analyzes N. P. Oganovsky’s stadial theory as one оf the considerable achievements of Russian economic thought at the beginning of the XX century. Oganovsky broadened the comparative analysis into an original conception of the world historical process. He took into account geoeconomic, structural, social demografic, ecologycal and political and institutional aspects of social life. Oganovsky introduced the category of sustainable development; the article shows that in his theory the modern category of self-sustained economic growth was anticipated. Oganovsky’s stadial approach is considered in an interdisciplinary context and associated with generalized conceptions of the political economy (German historical school, Marxism), Russian historiography (V. Klyuchevsky), agrarian cooperative thought (A. Chayanov) and geoeconomics (Semenov-Tyan-Shansky)