Valerian Osinsky
Valerian Obolensky-Ossinsky (1887-1938) was Professor of the Agricultural Academy of Moscow.
Valerian wrote under the name Nikolai Osinsky, and was active amogst the Democratic Centralists.
He was the first chairperson of the Vesenka.
He attended the World Social Economic Conference organised by the International Institute of Industrial Relations held at the Vereeniging Koloniaal Institute, Amsterdam. This was the first occasion that Soviet officials had travelled to the West to discuss how the Five Year Plan worked.[1]
His daughter Svetlana Valerianovna Obolenskaya (1925-2012) was a Russian historian.
He was executed in the Great Purge, 1938.
Texts
- “Minority Report on Building the Economy”, quoted in Robert V. Daniels (ed.), A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev, University Press of New England, Lebanon, NH, 1993, p. 98
References
- ↑ Alchon, Guy (1992). "Mary Van Kleeck and Scientific Management". In Nelson, Daniel. A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
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