Social market economy in Germany as an attempt to overcome the totalitarian past

The article discusses the relationship between the prevailing patterns of thinking, ideology and practice of economic policy in the period of transition in the post-war West Germany. The author traces the process of the emergence of the concept of social market economy in the writings of Walter Eucken and Alfred Muller-Armakom and analyzes the specifics of its practical implementation in Germany. Finally, attempts to draw preliminary conclusions about the possibility of using the experience of post-war West Germany in relation to the process of transformation in Russia since the 1990s.