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Vakhan Fomich Totomiants
Vakhan Fomich Totomiants was born into an Armenian family in Astrakhan' on 3 February 1875. He graduated from the University of Brussels (1898) and received his Ph. D. from the University of Kiev (1915). As a specialist in cooperative economics, he wrote several treatises on cooperatives and economics in general: Teoriia kooperatsii (1918), Istoriia ekonomicheskikh i sotsial'nykh uchenii (1921), Osnovy kooperatsii (1923), and Iz istorii russkoi ekonomicheskoi mysli (1956).
Generally considered to be one of the leading figures in the field, he taught in Kharkov', Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and following his emigration from Russia at several universities and institutes in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria between the wars.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides for depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials and copyright to them (with some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
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