Boris (Ber) Davydovich Brutskus (russian: Борис (Бер) Давыдович Бруцкус, he, בוריס (בר/דּוֹב) בֶּן־דָּוִד ברוצקוס, german: Boris Brutzkus; October 15/October 3
(Russian information), 1874 – December 6/December 7
(same with birthdate), 1938) was a Russian economist.
Brutskus was born in Polangen/
Palanga
Palanga (; bat-smg, Palonga; pl, Połąga; german: Polangen) is a seaside resort town in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea.
Palanga is the busiest summer resort in Lithuania and has sandy beaches (18 km, 11 miles long ...
in Lithuania, which was then part of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
. His brother was the historian and politician
Julius Brutzkus
Julius Davidovich Brutzkus or Judah Loeb Brutzkus or Joselis Bruckus ( he, יהודה ליבּ בֶּן־דָּוִד ברוצקוס, ''Yehuda Loeb ben David Brutzkus''; russian: Юлий Давидович Бруцкус; 1870, Palanga, Courlan ...
.
Brutskus published an English translation for ''Economic Planning in Soviet Russia'' with an introduction by
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...
in 1935.
He was forced into exile by the
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
government in 1922.
Boris Brutskus Biography
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He died in 1938 in Jerusalem.
Literary works
* ''Экономия сельского хозяйства, народно-хозяйственные основа'', 1924
* ''Die Lehre des Marxismus im Lichte der russischen Revolution'', 1928
References
External links
Peoples.ru: Биография Борис Бруцкус / Boris Brutskus
at www.peoples.ru (Russian)
vgd.ru
(Russian, short)
at monderusse.revues.org (French)
at iljinru.tsygankov.ru (German)
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1874 births
1938 deaths
People from Palanga
People from Courland Governorate
Lithuanian Jews
Jews from the Russian Empire
Economists from the Russian Empire
Soviet emigrants to Germany
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