Pyotr Pavlovich Maslov (Russian: Пётр Павлович Маслов; 15 (27) July 1867 – 4 June 1946) was a

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Biography

Born in Maslovka, Maslov attended at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute. He was in contact with the

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, a contact which led to his arrest in 1889. He joined the

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faction of the

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, and became a spokesperson on

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. He advocated the municipalisation of the land, in order to appeal to the peasantry by expropriating the land without compensation, and making it available to them cheaply, without giving them ownership. This was similar to a proposal by

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, except the latter wanted the land owned by central government. After the defeat of the

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he became a liquidationist and collaborated with

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. During the

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he became a defencisit. After the

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, as a member of the Central Land Committee, he took part in the preparation of the land law. He was a member of the administrative committee of the League of Agrarian Reforms. Maslov was a member of the Provisional Council of the Republic. After the

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he held an anti-

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and was a commissar in the Provisional Siberian Government and participated in the

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. Subsequently, Maslov came in to terms with the new Soviet government and became involved in science activity. In November 1918 he was appointed professor at the Omsk Agricultural Institute in the Department of Political Economy and Statistics. From1923 1926 he was a professor at the

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and the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy. From 1924 to 1929 he worked at the Institute of Economics at the Russian Association of Social Science Research Institutes (RANION). In 1929 he was elected a full member of the

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. He was involved in the case of the Union Bureau of the Mensheviks. On 25 April 1931 he was released from custody and exiled outside

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for three years. When the case was reviewed on 30 April 1931 Maslov was relieved from all charges. Maslov died on 4 June 1946 in Moscow. He was buried at the

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Family

Maslov's son Pavel Petrovich Maslov is a renowned statistician, head of the Department of Statistics of the Moscow Financial Institute. His grandson Victor Maslov, mathematician and physicist, academician of the

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References

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