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KONDRAT’YEV, Nikolay was born in 1892.
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Nikolay Dmitriycvich KONDRAT’YEV
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1917-1919 member, Socialist Revol Party;pupil of economist and historian Tugan-Baranovskiy, a one-time associate of Petlyura’s Ukraine government. 1920-1928 director, Market Institute. Professor, Timiryazcv Agric Academy.
Associate, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Finance and People's Commissariat of Agriculture Wrote reports for Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Planning Committee and lectured at Communist Academy. Compiled first five-year agric plan for Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1924 visited British Exhibition. 1925 sent to United States for economics talks. Developed economics theses and concepts contradicting Party line.
Defended private farming and proposed a redistribution of national income in favor of the peasantry'-, opposed the state’s monopolyon for trade and market manipulation. Pleaded for slower industrialization on the grounds that economics health depends on the harmonious interplay of industry and agriculture Gained considerable support among fellow-economists and students and gave added impetus to "rightist deviation” within the Party, especially with his concept of "restorative prices”, which was adopted by the Trotskyites.
Late 1930 arrested by Joint State Political Administration on charges of "facilitating counter-revol activities”, economics misplanning and spreading false information about Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Was also accused of involvement with the Working Peasants’ Party (an affiliate of the Indiana Party) during collectivization. After his arrest his economics theories were condemned by the Agrarian Institute at the Communist Academy and by the International Agrarian Institute.
Religion
Religions convince people that the source of their misery lies in the inherent and unchangeable "sinfulness" of humanity rather than in the forms of social organization and institutions.
Views
With the establishment of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and Asia, capitalism lost its dominance as an economic system.
