Alexander Schlichter
Alexander Schlichter | |
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Александр Шлихтер | |
![]() Schlichter in 1937 | |
People's Commissar of Food of the RSFSR | |
In office 31 December 1917 – 25 February 1918 | |
Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
Preceded by | Ivan Teodorovich |
Succeeded by | Alexander Tsiurupa |
People's Commissar of Agriculture of the RSFSR | |
In office 13 November 1917 – 17 November 1917 | |
Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
Preceded by | Vladimir Milyutin |
Succeeded by | Andrei Kolegayev |
Personal details | |
Born | Lubny, Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire | 1 September 1868
Died | 2 December 1940 Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union | (aged 72)
Resting place | Baikove Cemetery |
Political party | RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1940) |
Alma mater | National University of Kharkiv University of Bern |
Profession | Professor, economist, political scientist |
Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter (Ukrainian: Олександр Григорович Шліхтер; 1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1868 – 2 December 1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician, Soviet statesman, political scientist and economist.
Family background
[edit]Schlichter's grandfather, originally from western Germany (Württemberg), settled in what is the present-day Poltava Oblast of Ukraine in 1818. Schlichter was ethnically one-quarter German and three-fourths Ukrainian.
Career
[edit]Following studies at Kharkiv University, Schlichter joined a student the social democratic circle in 1891. He was involved in the technical production of the illegal Bolshevik paper Proletary while it appeared in the Russian Empire (1904–1906).
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After the Bolshevik seizure of power he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture. He also was People's Commissar for Food of the R.S.F.S.R., Commissar Extraordinary for Food in Siberia. In 1919, he became People's Commissar for Food of Ukraine.
In 1920, he was Chairman of the Tambov Gubernia Executive Committee, and was involved in suppression of the Tambov Rebellion.[1][2]
In April 1927, he attended the Fourth Congress of Soviets as commissar of agriculture in the Ukrainian Republic. There, he described 10% of the rural population of Ukraine as being "surplus".[3]
After 1930 he was mostly involved in scientific activity. He was a full member of the Communist Academy from 1930, an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and from 1928, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR from 1933. He became a Doctor of Economics in 1936. From 1931 to 1938, Schlichter was Vice-President of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, at the same time the director of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism and then president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Marxist–Leninist Institutions (VUAMLIN) from 1930 to 1936.
He was one of the initiators and active supporters of promoting the theories of Trofim Lysenko.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Lenin. "Lenin: 723. TO E. M. SKLYANSKY". www.marxists.org. MIA. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Lenin. "Lenin: 727. TO V. S. KORNEV". www.marxists.org. MIA. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Class Struggles in the USSR by Charles Bettelheim.
- ^ "Н. И. Вавилов и Т. Д. Лысенко в пространстве историко-научных дискуссий • Библиотека". «Элементы» (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- 1868 births
- 1940 deaths
- People from Lubny
- People from Poltava Governorate
- Russian people of German descent
- Ukrainian people of German descent
- National University of Kharkiv alumni
- University of Bern alumni
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
- Russian exiles in Siberia
- Inmates of Kosoi Kaponir Fortress
- Old Bolsheviks
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Land cultivation ministers of Russia
- Food provision ministers of Russia
- Food provision ministers of Ukraine
- Land cultivation ministers of Ukraine
- Academicians of the Byelorussian SSR Academy of Sciences
- Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Institute of History of the Party (Ukraine) directors
- Soviet people stubs
- Ukrainian Marxists
- People's commissars and ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Soviet economists
- Ukrainian political scientists
- 20th-century Ukrainian economists
- Politicians from the Russian Empire