Dzhermen Gvishiani

Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani (24 December 1928, Akhaltsikhe–18 May, 2003, Moscow) was a Soviet philosopher, management theorist and scientific administrator.

Early life and family

Dzhermen Gvishiani was born the son of Mikhail Maksimovich Gvishiani, a Georgian and an Armenian mother. His forename was composed from the first part of Felix Dzherzinski's name (Dzher) followed by the first part of Vyacheslav Menzhinsky's name (men). Both were former chairmen of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) for whom his father worked.[1]

Since 1948 married to Lyudmila Gvishiani (Kosygina), librarian and the only daughter of the Soviet Prime Minister (by 1948 - Minister of Finances) Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin.

His son, Alexey Gvishiani, is a prominent Russian geoinformatics scientist. Granddaughter, Ekaterina Semenikhina, art collector and Russian honorary consul in Monaco.

Career

Gvishiani graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1951 and became a member of the Communist Party. He also joined the Soviet Navy that year, serving until 1955. Then he started work for the State Committee for New Technology. However, when the organisation was superseded by the State Committee for Science and Technology in 1965, he was appointed Deputy Chairman under Vladimir Kirillin.[2] Member of the Club of Rome, co-founder of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and head of its Soviet branch, Institute for Systems Analysis of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, known for its free thinking atmosphere unusual in the heavily ideologized Soviet environment that was essential to develop a market-oriented programme of further reforms of the Soviet economy. In 1980-ties served as the deputy head of Soviet Gosplan.

Publications
  • Organisation and management;: A sociological analysis of Western theories (1972) Moscow: Progress Publishers
  • Systems Research: Methodological Problems (1984) Oxford: Pergamon Press

References
  1. Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė (2016). The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501706257. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  2. "Dzhermen Gvishiani". TheFreeDictionary.com. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
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