Andrei Berzin

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Andrei Berzin
Andrejs Bērziņš
Born(1893-01-21)21 January 1893
USSR
NationalityLatvian
Academic career
School or
tradition
Marxian economics

Andrei Gasparovich Berzin (Russian: Андрей Гаспарович Берзин, Latvian: Andrejs Bērziņš; January 23, 1893, Majorenhof, Governorate of Livonia — 1951, Latvian SSR) was a Soviet politician.

After the

Soviet Russia, where he worked as deputy head of the administrative and financial department of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture
.

In 1930, along with other economists Nikolai Kondratiev, Alexander Chayanov and Lev Litoshenko [ru] he was arrested by Cheka in the case of the so-called Labor Peasant Party [ru]. In 1931, Berzin was exiled to Kazakhstan, where he worked as an economist-planner at Soyuzpromkorm.

In 1938, during the Latvian Operation of the NKVD Berzin was arrested again and imprisoned in a Gulag correctional labour camp until the end of World War II, after which he was released and allowed to return to Moscow.

First husband of actress

Grigory Alexandrov
, she had asked Stalin to find out about Berzin and help him.

Berzin died in 1951 from cancer in Latvia, where he was living with his relatives.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Берзин, Андрей Гаспарович — RuData.ru" (in Russian). www.rudata.ru. Retrieved April 26, 2018.