Sholom Moiseevich Dvolaitsky (, S. M. Dvolaitsky; 1893–27 November, 1937) was a

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economist and state official. Dvolajckij was born in

Žagarė Žagarė (, see also #Etymology, other names) is a city located in the Joniškis district, northern Lithuania, close to the border with Latvia. It has a population of about 2,000, down from 14,000 in 1914, when it was the 7th largest city in Lith ...

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, then part of the

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. He collaborated with

Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer and Bolshevik revolutionary. He was a polymath who pioneered blood transfusion, a ...

in producing the 10th revised edition of ''Kratkii kurs ekonomicheskoi nauki'' (1920) which appeared in an English translation by Joe Fineberg as ''A Short Course in Economic Science'' (1923). However Bogdanov was to criticise Dvolajckij's view that the method of K. Marx’s ''

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'' 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

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's ''

The Accumulation of Capital ''The Accumulation of Capital'' (full title: ''The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to an Economic Explanation of Imperialism''; German: ''Die Akkumulation des Kapitals: Ein Beitrag zur ökonomischen Erklärung des Imperialismus'') is th ...

'' 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

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from 1936–7 when he was

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.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

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