On September 12, 2009, the famous sinologist Yakov Mikhailovich Berger, Doctor of Historical Sciences, celebrated his 80th birthday.

By his own admission, he did not intend to be a Sinologist at all, but dreamed of studying mathematics, but life circumstances ordered otherwise. After perfectly passing one required (as a silver medalist) exam at the Institute of Oriental Studies, J. M. Berger had to stubbornly defend (in response to persistent persuasions to take away the documents) his right to study at the Moscow Art Institute, which he nevertheless successfully graduated with a red diploma in 1952. They didn't accept him for graduate school (they gave him a B in Marxism), but they offered him to go God knows where as an English teacher. For a year and a half, Yakov Mikhailovich made odd jobs: translations, abstracts in VINITI of works by Chinese scientists in mathematics, biology and other natural sciences, for which he mastered the terms and concepts necessary for high-quality performance of this work in the Lenin Library. Having started working at the Institute of Geography with translations of Chinese materials for a collective monograph, J. M. Berger soon begins writing articles, working with Chinese delegations, and participating in scientific conferences. In 1957, at the suggestion of the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors. the director of the Institute, E. M. Murzaev (whom Yakov Mikhailovich still remembers as a great scientist and a wonderful person), he goes to Xinjiang as part of a Sino-Soviet complex expedition, which became a great professional school for him.

In 1962, J. M. Berger defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Geographical Sciences on the topic "Economic and geographical characteristics of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China".

In 1965, Berger moved to the Department of History, aimed at studying modern China, created by the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU and working for the apparatus of this structure, but formally listed at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A year later, this structure was reorganized into the Institute of the Far East of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and Y. M. Berger became one of its leading employees. When J. M. Berger was the head of the information sector of the IDV, a system of information publications was created: two newsletters were published almost regularly (one for current information, the second for analytical information). As Head of the General Problems Sector, Yakov Mikhailovich actively participated in the preparation of a number of analytical reports and notes for policy makers. The height of the" cultural revolution", the peak of tense relations with China, up to the incidents at the border, the intensity of mutual accusations in the polemic between the CPSU and the CCP required considerable intellectual activity, which also involved processing incoming new information on events in China. It can be said that simultaneously with the solution of ideological problems in IDV, the formation of a domestic school of analysis of modern China was taking place. And in this process, there is a very noticeable share of J. M. Berger's activity. Among the results of J. M. Berger's research at this stage, we should mention his monograph "Social Processes in the modern Chinese village", published in 1989 as a result of his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences, defended in 1987.

In the 1970s and 1980s, J. M. Berger took an active part in creating a new information field in the USSR. Under his editorship, INION published for the first time in Russian translations of a number of the most important works of such Western thinkers as M. Weber, K. Jaspers, K. Mannheim, R. Aron and others, as well as a series of scientific and analytical collections " Transition to the market in China. Society, Politics, Economy", "Transition to the Market: legacy of the past and breakthrough to the future", "China from a closed society to an open world". According to him, working at INION enriched him not only with new knowledge, which previously seemed far from his main profession, but, as it turned out later,

It gave some additional impetus to professional studies, which during this period were associated with the modernization processes in the PRC and articles on the results of which were published in the journals "Problems of the Far East", "Polis" and a number of others.

Since 1993, J. M. Berger has been Deputy Editor-in-chief of the journal "Problems of the Far East" and oversees publications on socio-economic issues. In the 1990s, having paid tribute to many social initiatives, since 1995 J. M. Berger has been concurrently becoming the director of the higher Education program of the Open Society Institute. And in 2000. he returns to the Institute of the Far East as chief researcher, and the main topic of his research interests is the interaction and interrelation of the economy and the social sphere.

For his 80th birthday, J. M. Berger prepared a voluminous, well-founded work "China's Economic Strategy".

The Department of China and the Directorate of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the editorial board and editorial board of the journal "Vostok (Oriens)" cordially congratulate the hero of the day.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF J. M. BERGER

Progressive Chinese historians on the Taiping Uprising / / Voprosy istorii. 1953. N 9. P. 123-130 (together with S. K. Shantanov).

Geografiya Kitayskoy Narodnoi Respubliki [Geography of the People's Republic of China], Moscow, 1956. - Author's article: Development and Placement of Ferrous metallurgy in the People's Republic of China. pp. 53-65 (sovm. with M. N. Gorbunova); New features in the development of the economy of national regions of China (on the example of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region). P. 96-107.

China: Ekonomiko-geograficheskiy ocherk [Economic and Geographical essay], Moscow: Geografgiz Publ., 1959, 112 p.

The development of agriculture in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region, China // Questions of geography of agriculture of the people's Republic of China. M., 1959. Pp. 146 - 167.

The People's Republic of China: essays on the geography of population and economy. Tallinn: Estgosizdat Publ., 1962, 122 p. (in English).

Вступ. article // Economic Geography of North-Eastern China, Moscow, 1963, pp. 5-16.

To events in China / USSR Academy of Sciences. Institute of the Far East, Moscow: Politizdat Publ., 1967, 72 p. (co-authored by S. B. Zanegin and A. Mironov. Sub-item: Ya. Mikhailov). The same: Kiev: Politizdat Ukrainy, 1967. 70 p. (in Ukrainian). The same: Moscow: Progress Publ., 1968, 85 p. (in English).

Stages of the" Cultural revolution " in China // IDV OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Information bulletin. 1968. N17. pp. 117-196.

China on the World map / / China Today, Moscow, 1969, pp. 35-51.

Some issues of China's economic development // Proceedings of the conference "Socio-economic problems of Modern China". IDV of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1969, issue 1, pp. 116-136.

People's Republic of China. Ekonomika, gosudarstvo i pravo, kul'tura [Economy, State and Law, culture].

Institute of the Far East, Moscow: GRVL, 1970. - Author's ch.: National Economy of the People's Republic of China. pp. 46-113 (together with A. S. Mugruzin et al.).

China: Threat of Overpopulation? M.: Novosti, 1971. 36 p. To: in French. and Spanish.

Ob evolyutsii sunyatsenizma v kuomintangskom Kitay [On the evolution of Sunyatsenism in the Kuomintang China]. Kitay: Obshchestvo i gosudarstvo, Moscow, 1973, pp. 279-293.

Strany i narody: Vostochnaya i Tsentralnaya Aziya [Countries and Peoples: Eastern and Central Asia], Moscow, 1982, pp. 58-163 (in collaboration with V. T. Zaichikov et al.).

Socio-economic problems of the modern Chinese village. Scientific and analytical review / INION of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1982, 80 p.

Population and food resources of China. Scientific and analytical review / INION. 1983. M. 84 p.

A collective and a peasant in a modern Chinese village. Nauchno-analiticheskiy obzor [Scientific and analytical review]. INION, Moscow, 1984, 82 p.

Problems of agricultural management in China. Nauchno-analiticheskiy obzor [Scientific and analytical review]. INION, Moscow, 1985, 159 p.

Social processes in the modern Chinese village / INION. Moscow: GRVL, 1986, 269 p.

Family farming and problems of cooperation in the modern Chinese village. Scientific and analytical review/ INION. Moscow, 1986. 90 p.

Nekotorye tendentsii sotsial'nogo razvitiya sovremennoy kitayskoy derevnya [Some trends in the social development of modern Chinese villages]. 1993. N 2. pp. 37-45.

Modernizatsiya i traditsiya v sovremennom Kitay [Modernization and Tradition in Modern China]. 1995. N 5. pp. 60-79.

China: from a closed society to an open world. Sbornik obzorov [Collection of reviews], Moscow, 1995.-

homeland in modern China. P. 42-58; Struggle for human rights in China. P. 59-97. Ed. and comp. by J. M. Berger.

Family planning in China: results and prospects. Part 1 / / PDV. 2001. N1. pp. 100-113. The same in English.

Family planning in China: results and prospects. Part 2 / / PDV. 2001. N 2. pp. 76-91. The same in English.

Russo-kitayskie otnosheniya i problema mnogopolarnogo mira [Russian - Chinese economic relations in the assessments of regional specialists]. Moscow, 2002, pp. 78-95.

China and India: strategy and results of socio-economic development / / PDV. 2002. N 3. pp. 137-147. The same in English.

On the reliability of China's economic growth and the "Chinese threat" / / PDV. 2002. N 6. pp. 40-55. The same in English.

On the results of the 5th session of the National People's Congress of the 9th Convocation / / PDV. 2002. N 3. pp. 6-11. The same in English.

Social support for elderly people in China, Part 1 / / PDV. 2002. N 1. pp. 107-119. 4.2. N2. pp. 86-102. The same in English.

Social changes in the PRC during the reforms ("round table") / / PDV. 2002. N 5. pp. 74-80.

FDI in China: Contributions to Modernisation and Solutions to Major Social Problems // China Report. New Dehli. 2002. V. 38. N 4. P. 481 - 489.

Globalization of the Chinese Economy, Moscow: Pamyatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2003. Author: Kitai i NEA: perspektivy sotsial'noi integratsii [China and the NEA: Prospects for Social Integration]. P. 297-338; China and the problem of creating the middle class (to the results of the XVI CPC Congress). pp. 369-379.

To the 80th anniversary of Lev Petrovich Delyusin // East (Oriens). 2003. N 6. pp. 201-206.

Reform policy and structural and functional reorganization of the Government of the People's Republic of China: (To the results of the first session of the NPC of the 10th convocation) / / PDV. 2003. N 3. pp. 6-25. The same in English.

Decisions of the XVI Congress of the Communist Party of China. Materials of the "round table". Speech / / PDV. 2003. N 1. p. 54, 65-69.

XVI Congress of the CPC and the strategy of socio-economic development of China / / PDV. 2003. N 2. pp. 29-51.

Deng Xiaoping and economic reforms in China / / PDV 2004. N 5. pp. 30-47. The same in English.

Protection // Society and the State in China. Special issue: To the 80th anniversary of L. P. Delyusin, Moscow, 2004, pp. 121-136.

Ispol'zovanie inostrannykh investitsii v Kitae [Using foreign investment in China]. 2004. N 1. pp. 5-13. The same / / Investments in Russia. 2004. N 3. pp. 7-11.

To the centenary of Xue Muqiao / / PDV. 2004. N 6. pp. 94-98.

China and Russia in the global world / / New Thought, Moscow, 2004, No. 10, pp. 131-133.

On the energy strategy of China / / PDV. 2004. N 3. pp. 120-137. The first year of the new leadership of the People's Republic of China: results, problems, prospects. Materials of the "round table" / / PDV. 2004. N 3. pp. 12-15, 23-27.

Problems of sustainable development of China / / China in the dialogue of civilizations: to the 70th anniversary of Academician M. L. Titarenko. Moscow, 2004. pp. 31-42.

North-East Asia: Energy Security Strategy, Moscow, 2004. (Working materials / Mosk. Carnegie Center; Issue 6). pp. 3-50 (sovm. with others).

Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe razvitie i uglushenie rynochnykh reformov v Kitae [Socio-economic development and deepening of market reforms in China]. The same in English.

Authoritarianism of development: genesis of function, prospects. Materials of the "round table" / / World economy and International relations. 2005. N 6. pp. 92-96.

The Rise of China // International life. 2005. N 9. pp. 46-59.

To the demise of Zhao Ziyang / / PDV. 2005. N 2. pp. 57-62.

China: Social challenges to development // Society and economy. 2005. No. 1. pp. 96-136 (together with V. V. Mikheev).

China: Threats, Risks, Challenges to Development, Moscow: Mosk. Carnegie Center, 2005. - Author of the chapter: Economics: macro-and micro-levels. pp. 178-235; Social sphere and the democratic factor. pp. 287-327; Environmental safety and resource availability. pp. 328-356; Anti-crisis programs of the Chinese leadership: efficiency assessment. pp. 563-599.

China's social system: "post-socialist capitalism"? // Society and Economy. 2005. N 7/8. pp. 58-96 (together with V. V. Mikheev).

Reforms in the Soviet Union and China // the path of Russia: twenty years of change. M., 2005. P. 66 - 71.

Russia, China and the Future of Siberia / / Western Siberia: region, economy, investments. Barnaul, 2005. Issue 5. Materials of the International Journal of Economics. econ. conf. February 26 - 27, 2005, pp. 89-93.

A Comparative Analysis of Regional Policies for Development in Russia and China // Proceedings of International Conference on Regional Disparities, Economic Integration and Economic Development.

Wuhan University. 2005. December 2 - 4. P. 405 - 417.

Big Strategy of China in the assessments of American and Chinese researchers / / PDV. 2006. N 1. pp. 34-51.

The Great Strategy of China and the place of Russia in it. Conf. "Society and the State in China", Moscow, 2006, pp. 132-138.

Democratization of China. Materials of the "round table" / / MEiMO RAS, 2006, No. 7, pp. 52-59.

Dragon soars into the sky / / Around the world. 2006. N8. pp. 106-118.

Study of regional development issues in China: International Conference in Wuhan, Dec. 2005 / / PDV. 2006. N 2. pp. 165-172.

Results of the 10th five-year plan and the formation of a new model of economic growth in China / / PDV. 2006. N 3. pp. 14-29; Part 2. N 4. pp. 81-95.

Asia and Africa today. 2006. N 8. - Author: China-a global power of the XXI century? p. 2-12; Political reform in China. P. 44-53.

Lessons from Chinese reforms for Russia // Russian-Chinese Cooperation: Problems and Solutions (proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference). conferences, MGIMO (U) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, December 21-31. 2006). 2007. pp. 192-204.

China and Japan: Economic Globalization, politics and Security interests. Materials of the "round table". Speech / / MEiMO RAS, 2007, No. 8, pp. 84-85.

China-Japan: the problem of economic compatibility / / China-Japan: competition for Leadership, Moscow, 2007. pp. 6-7.

Prospects of political reforms in China / / Rise of China: significance for global and regional security, Moscow, 2007, pp. 33-46.

Lessons from Chinese reforms for Russia // Russia and China. XXI vek [XXI century], Moscow, 2007, pp. 30-35.

Administrative and political renewal of state power in China (to the results of the 1st session of the National People's Congress of the 11th convocation) / / PDV. 2008. N 3. pp. 6-19.

China clarifies the course (to the results of the 17th CPC Congress) / / Asia and Africa Today. 2008. N 3. p. 2-11.

Stock market of the People's Republic of China / / MEiMO RAS. 2008. N 6. pp. 65-74 (sovm. with V. V. Mikheev).

Domestic notes. 2008. N 42 (3). - Author: Prospects of political reform in modern China. pp. 8-27; Innovative prospects of China. pp. 99-109; Chinese healthcare. pp. 157-164.

China: World view and Self-identification // Domestic notes. 2008. N 45 (6). pp. 136-149.

Economic strategy of China and prospects of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership / / China: investment Strategy and Prospects for Russia, Moscow, 2008, pp. 8-36.

China: Global Crisis and Perestroika of the World Financial Order / / China in Search of Harmony. To the 75th anniversary of Academician M. L. Titarenko, Moscow, 2009, pp. 24-41.

China in the global economic crisis//ПДВ. 2009. N 1. pp. 31-44.

Formation of innovative economy in China / / XVII Congress of the CPC and problems of socio-economic development of the PRC at the present stage. Moscow, 2009, pp. 162-280.

Economic Strategy of China, Moscow: Infra-Moscow, 2009, 560 p. (in print).

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