Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (Strumillo-Petrashkevich) (russian: Станисла́в Гу́ставович Струми́лин (Струми́лло-Петрашке́вич); 29 January 1877, Dashkovtsy,

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– 25 January 1974,

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) was a

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economist and statistician. He played a leading role in the analysis of the planned economy of the

type, including modeling, development of the five year plans and calculation of national income. His particular contributions include the "Strumilin index", a measure of

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, and the "''norm'' coefficient", relating to analysis of investment activity.

Biography

Born into an impoverished noble family of Strumillo-Petrashkevich, descended from Marshal of the

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Stanislav Petrashkovich Stromila. Strumilin joined the revolutionary movement in 1897 and joined the

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. Strumilin became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1899 and joined its Menshevik faction. He graduated from Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1914. After the

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he worked on setting up the

planned economy while he was appointed to a professorship in

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at the

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. Strumilin worked as the head of the Statistics Department of the Petrograd Regional Commissariat of Labor and from 1919 head of the statistics All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. From 1921 to 1937 he worked at the State Planning Commission. In the 30s, he was deputy Chairman of the

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and a member of its Presidium. From 1932 to 1934 he was deputy head of the Central Directorate of National Economic Accounting. From 1931 he was member of the

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. Strumilin was also a professor at the Moscow State University, Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, Moscow State Economic Institute, Moscow Financial Institute and Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU. In the sixties he gained an international reputation in the field of the economics of education following the publication of "The economics of education in the USSR" by UNESCO.

Works

* "Bogatsvo i Trud" (''Wealth and Labor'') (1905) * "Problemikiy Ekonomikiy Truda" (''Problems of the Economics of Labor'') (1925) * "Otcherkiy Sovetskoy Ekonomikiy" (''Essays on the Soviet Economy'') (1928) * "Promiyshlenniy Perevorot v Rossiy" (''The Industrial Revolution in Russia'') (1944) * "The Time Factor in Capital Investment Projects" (''published in 1946 in

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, in 1951 published in

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by International Economic Association'') * "Istoriya Chernoi Metalurgii v SSSR” (''The history of metallurgical industry in USSR'') (1954) * "The economics of education in the USSR" (1962)

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110615194812/http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Theory/Marxism/Soviet/strumilin.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20071026033537/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/soviet.htm * * https://web.archive.org/web/20070128182124/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3955/is_n7_v47/ai_17792339 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Strumilin, Stanislav Gustavovich 1877 births 1974 deaths People from Vinnytsia Oblast People from Litinsky Uyezd Mensheviks Marxian economists Soviet economists Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Heroes of Socialist Labour Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Lenin Prize winners Recipients of the USSR State Prize