Background
STRUMILIN, Stanislav was born in 1877.
STRUMILIN, Stanislav was born in 1877.
He graduated from Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1914.
Since 1897 active in revolutionary workers’ movement. Before Revolution frequently arrested and imprisoned. Twice escaped from exile.
Lived for some time in emigration. As student joined Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. Later active member, Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.
Marxist and professional revolutionary at age of twenty, but arrived at Marxism-Leninism and “creative Communism” only at age of forty. Delegation at 1906 Stockholm and 1907 London Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party Congresses. Helped draft 1st and 2nd FiveYear Plans.
1958 pointed out grave shortcomings in Soviet agricultural system, chiefly low productivity of kolkhoz and sovkhoz workers. Helping to draft new 20-Year Plan for development of USSR economics, due for discussion at 1961 Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congress. Publicity work since 1905.
Author of about 200 books and articles on statistics, accounting, “socialist” planning, hist, of USSR national economics and labor productivity in industrial and agricultural. 1916-1918 Head, Statistical Department, Special Fuel Advisory Board, Petrograd. 1918-1919 Head, Statistical Department, Petrograd Oblast Commissariat of Labor.
1919-1921 Head, Statistical Department, Popular Commissariat of Labor, and AllRussian Central Trade-Union Council. 1921-1937 and 1943-1951 Deputy Chairman, Presidium member, then Deputy Head, Central Economics Accounting Board, and member, Council of Science and Technology Experts, USSR State Planning Committee. 1921-1923 Professor, Moscow University.
1929-1930 Professor, Plekhanov Institute of National Economics. 1931-1950 Professor, Moscow Economics Institute. 1942-1946 various exec, posts at USSR Academy of Science, and Deputy Chairman, Council of Branches and Bases of USSR Academy of Science.
1946-1957 Deputy Chairman, Council for the Study of the Productive Forces of the USSR, USSR Academy of Science.
Religion is bad because it wastes time and money.
Until 1917 he worked as a socialist activist.
With the establishment of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and Asia, capitalism lost its dominance as an economic system.
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
In 1931 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
