Valerian Osinsky

Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky (1887 – 1 September 1938) (who worked under the pseudonym N.Osinsky) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, Soviet politician and Professor of the Agricultural Academy of Moscow.

Valerian wrote under the name Nikolai Osinsky, and was active amongst the Left Communists around the "Kommunist" journal in 1918[1] and later among the Democratic Centralists.

He was the first chairperson of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy but lost that position in spring 1918 due to his opposition to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.[2]

He attended the World Social Economic Conference organised by the International Institute of Industrial Relations held at the Vereeniging Koloniaal Institute in Amsterdam. This was the first occasion that Soviet officials had travelled to the West to discuss how the Five Year Plan worked.[3]

His daughter Svetlana Valerianovna Obolenskaya (1925-2012) was a Russian historian.

During the Great Purge, he was tried alongside Vasiliy Mantsev, Vladimir Karelin, Boris Kamkov, I. N. Stukov, E. V. Artemenko, I. V. Zaporpzhetz, I. M. Savolainen, Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov and S. B. Chelnov.[4] He was sentenced to death on 1 November 1937 and executed on 1 September 1938.[5]

Texts
  • “Minority Report on Building the Economy”, quoted in Robert V. Daniels (ed.), A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev, University Press of New England, Lebanon, NH, 1993, p. 98

References
  1. Boggs, Carl (1977). "Revolutionary Process, Political Strategy, and the Dilemma of Power". Theory and Society. 4 (3): 367–8. JSTOR 656724.
  2. Carr, E. H. (1966). The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-23. 2. Pelican. p. 91.
  3. Alchon, Guy (1992). "Mary Van Kleeck and Scientific Management". In Nelson, Daniel (ed.). A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
  4. Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "bloc of Rights and Trotskyites". Moscow: Peoples Commissariat of Justice of the USSR. 1938. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  5. Slezkine, Yuri (2017). The House of Government. Princeton University Press. pp. 846–7. ISBN 9780691176949.
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