Alexander Schlichter

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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Grigoryevich and the family name is Schlichter.

Alexander Schlichter
Александр Шлихтер
Schlichter in 1937
People's Commissar of Food of the Russian SFSR
In office
31 December 1917 – 25 February 1918
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byIvan Teodorovich
Succeeded byAlexander Tsiurupa
People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Russian SFSR
In office
13 November 1917 – 17 November 1917
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byVladimir Milyutin
Succeeded byAndrei Kolegayev
Personal details
Born(1868-09-01)1 September 1868
Lubny, Russian Empire
Died2 December 1940(1940-12-02) (aged 72)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeBaikove Cemetery, Kyiv
Political party
Alma mater
ProfessionProfessor, economist, political scientist

Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter (Russian: Алексан́др Григо́рьевич Шли́хтер, romanized: Aleksandr Grigoryevich Shlikhter, Ukrainian: Олександр Григорович Шліхтер, romanized: Oleksandr Hryhorovych Shlikhter; 1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1868 – 2 December 1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet bureaucrat and academician.

Family background

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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

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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).

Schlichter in 1917

After the October Revolution he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture. He also was People's Commissar for Food of the Russian SFSR, 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 Governorate 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

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  1. ^ Lenin. "Lenin: 723. TO E. M. SKLYANSKY". www.marxists.org. MIA. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Lenin. "Lenin: 727. TO V. S. KORNEV". www.marxists.org. MIA. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ Class Struggles in the USSR by Charles Bettelheim.
  4. ^ "Н. И. Вавилов и Т. Д. Лысенко в пространстве историко-научных дискуссий • Библиотека". «Элементы» (in Russian). Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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