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Arcadius Kahan (January 16 1920 – 1982) was a noted 20th century economic historian and Professor at the University of Chicago. Arcadius was author of ‘Russian Economic History The Nineteenth Century’ also ‘The Plow the Hammer and the Knout’ The latter book presents his explanation of the foundation in the Eighteenth Century of the Russian economy and power structure.Kahan had been a student in the Communist Party when the Nazis invaded his country Poland in 1939.