Sergey Ivanovitch Tyulpanov: the 115 Anniversary of Birthday

Abstract

Sergej Ivanovitch Tjulpanov — the outstanding scientist, citizen, diplomat, warrior, born at the be- ginning of the twentieth century, a man of amazing destiny that was shaped and defined by the time and country he lived in. The paper is a result of collaboration between N. P. Kuznetsova — one the last S. I. Tyulpanov’s post-graduate student and Ingeborg and Michael Pardon — German authors of the «Sergej Tjulpanov — the political portrait» project (and future book) based on enormous volume of archive materials collected in Russia and Germany. German colleagues particularly dwell on the Tyulpanov’s activities in the post-war Germany in the department of Information (SMAD). After the World War II he happened to be one of the founders of the Russian-German friendship and cooperation, who has become a legend of Eastern and Western Germany. The essential part of the paper is dedicated to Tjulpanov as the Teacher and distinguished scientist-ideologist, the founder of the Modern Capitalism Economy department. Studying social science including economics, history, philosophy, etc. he was committed to what was called “Marxist-Leninist theory of social development”, trying to get reed of frozen ideological norms and in this format to offload from dogmatism educating students, who took his example in the invisible moral status “overflow” into the professional activity and vice versa.

Keywords:

Department of information, Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD), DDR, modern capitalism economy department, scientific, teaching and ideological activities