
Ivan Ivanovich Yanzhul (russian: Иван Иванович Янжул; – ) was a professor of
financial law
Financial law is the law and regulation of the commercial banking, capital markets, insurance, derivatives and investment management sectors. Understanding financial law is crucial to appreciating the creation and formation of banking and financ ...
at
Moscow University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
who established the Russian state
factory inspection
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. The ...
. He helped enforce the
first Russian labour code (1 June 1882) which provided a measure of protection for Russian factory workers. His job involved finding an industrial enterprise, gaining access to the premises and forcing the owner to halt illegal practices such as night
child labor
Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such ...
. His political views have been described as
state socialism
State socialism is a political and economic ideology within the socialist movement that advocates state ownership of the means of production. This is intended either as a temporary measure, or as a characteristic of socialism in the transition ...
[''Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences''. Macmillan Co., 1957. Vol. 15. Page 512.] in that he advocated that government manipulation of tax and customs policy was sufficient for the realisation of socialism.
Yanzhul was elected into the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
in 1895. His
memoirs
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobio ...
were published in 2 volumes in 1910 and 1911.
References
External links
Yanzhul's memoirs, part I(in Russian)
Yanzhul's memoirs, part II(in Russian)
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Statisticians from the Russian Empire
Economists from the Russian Empire
Memoirists from the Russian Empire
History of labour law
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow State University
1846 births
1914 deaths