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Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin, 1877-1974.

Soviet planning economist, Strumilin, studied economics under Tugan-Baranovsky at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic.  A Menshevik activist, Strumilin was arrested and exiled twice before the 1917 Revolution.  Strumilin was one of the principal masterminds of the Soviet "War Communism" period of 1918-1921, proposing the use of "labor units" as a unit of account (to replace the worthless rouble).  Although most of his policies were abandoned after the introduction of the NEP in 1921, Strumilin remained on the State Planning Committee (Gosplan).   

In later years, Strumilin concentrated his research on labor issues, in particular measuring the impact of education on wage differentials.  He was the author of the famous "Strumilin index" of labor productivity.

 

  

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Major Works of Stanislav G. Strumilin

  • Wealth and Labor, 1905.
  • "Economic Significance of National Education", 1924, Planovove khoziastvo.
  • Problems of the Economics of Labor, 1925.
  • Essays on the Soviet Economy, 1928.
  • "On the Problem of Efficiency of Capital Expenditure", 1929, Planovove khoziastvo.
  • The Industrial Revolution in Russia, 1944.
  • "The Time Factor in Capital Investment Projects", 1945, Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSR.
  • Out of My Past, 1897-1917.  1957.
  • "The Economics of Education in the USSR", 1962, Eknomicheskaia gazeta.[English tras. 1962, ISSJ, p.663] [pdf]

 
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Resources on Stanislav Strumilin

  • Strumilin page at economicus.ru
  • Strumilin page at Russian Academy of Sciences
  • "Strumilin" entry in Soviet Historical Encyclopedia, 1971 (in Russian) [online]
  • Strumilin entry at Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian)  [online]
  • Strumilin entry at Philosophical Encyclopedia (in Russian) [online]
  • Strumilin 30 year anniversary article in Demoscope, 2004 (in Russian) [online]
  • Strumilin page at warheroes.ru
  • Strumilin's tomb at Novodevichy cemetery, Moscow [online]
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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