Šolom Moiseevič Dvolajckij (russian: Шолом Моисеевич Дволайцкий, S. M. Dvolaitsky; 1893–27 November, 1937) was a Soviet economist and state official. Dvolajckij was born in Žagarė,

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, then part of the Russian Empire. He collaborated with

Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...

in producing the 10th revised edition of ''Kratkii kurs ekonomicheskoi nauki'' (1920) which appeared in an English translation by

Joe Fineberg Joe Fineberg (1886–1957) was a prominent translator for the Communist International. He produced English language, English translations of works by Alexander Bogdanov, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Vladimir Lenin, Boris Polevoy, Leo Tolsto ...

as ''A Short Course in Economic Science'' (1923). However Bogdanov was to criticise Dvolajckij's view that the method of K. Marx’s '' Das Kapital'' was not applicable to the analysis of non-capitalist social-economic formations. In 1928 his ''Ćastnyj kapital v torgovle SSSR'' was published in Russia. In 1934 hi
translation of a chapter
of

Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...

's '' The Accumulation of Capital'' was published in Moscow: Tugan-Baranovsky He was director of the Department of Culture and Propaganda of the Azov-Black Sea Territorial Committee of the

All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

from 1936–7 when he was purged.Getty J. A. & Naumov O. V. (2002) ''The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939'' Yale:Yale History Press He was arrested on 15 October 1937 and tried and shot on 27 November 1937. His ashes are buried in the Donskoye Cemetery

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dvolajckij, Sholom 1893 births 1937 deaths People from Žagarė People from Shavelsky Uyezd Jews from the Russian Empire Soviet economists Lithuanian Jews Soviet Jews Great Purge victims from Lithuania Jews executed by the Soviet Union