Lev Kritzman

Lev Natanovich Kritzman (1890–c. 1937) was a Russian Marxian economist who became a prominent advocate of state planning in the 1920s Soviet economy. However after 1929, his views on agricultural reform were not aligned with mass collectivisation and dekulakization introduced by Stalin. Nevertheless he continued with private research but was arrested in the Great Purge and died in prison sometime around 1937.[1]

In 1905 Krirtzman joined the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He was expelled from the University of Odessa in 1910, but continued his education in exile. He returned to Russia in 1918 and joined the Russian Communist Party (b).[2]