Background
Alexander Nikiforovich Minin was born on February 27, 1881 in the village Dobroye, Kursk region, Russian Federation.
Alexander Nikiforovich Minin was born on February 27, 1881 in the village Dobroye, Kursk region, Russian Federation.
Alexander Nikiforovich worked as an agronomist in county institutions of Kharkov, Chernihiv, Moscow provinces (1910-1917). In 1917 he became a member of the Council of the League of Agrarian Reforms, in 1918-1920, a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Council of Cooperative Congresses, at the same time Alexander Nikiforovich worked as a teacher of the Moscow National University named after A.L. Shanyavsky.
Unjustifiably repressed (1930) in the case of the so-called "Labor Peasant Party", sentenced to 10 years of corrective labor camps. In 1938 he was convicted again, executed by shooting.
Alexander Nikiforovich was a supporter of the ideas of A.V. Chayanova and N.D. Kondratieff on the viability of individual peasant farms.