Alexander Schlichter

Ukrainian Bolshevik politician

Alexander Schlichter

Александр Шлихтер
People's Commissar of Food of the RSFSR
In office
31 December 1917 – 25 February 1918
Premier| Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by| Ivan Teodorovich
Succeeded by| Alexander Tsiurupa
People's Commissar of Agriculture of the RSFSR
In office
13 November 1917 – 17 November 1917
Premier| Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by| Vladimir Milyutin
Succeeded by| Andrei Kolegayev
Personal details
Born| (1868-09-01)1 September 1868
Lubny, Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire
Died| 2 December 1940(1940-12-02) (aged 72)
Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Resting place| Baikove Cemetery
Political party| RSDLP (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1940)
Alma mater| National University of Kharkiv
University of Bern
Profession| Professor, economist, political scientist

Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter (Ukrainian: Олександр Григорович Шліхтер; 1 September 1868 – 2 December 1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician, Soviet statesman, political scientist and economist.

Schlichter's grandfather, originally from western Germany (Württemberg), settled in what is the present-day Poltava Oblast of Ukraine in 1818. Schlichter was ethnically one-quarter German and three-fourths Ukrainian.

Following studies at Kharkiv University, Schlichter joined a student the social democratic circle in 1891. He was involved in the technical production of the illegal Bolshevik paper Proletary while it appeared in the Russian Empire (1904–1906).

Schlichter in 1917

After the Bolshevik seizure of power he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture. He also was People's Commissar for Food of the R.S.F.S.R., Commissar Extraordinary for Food in Siberia. In 1919, he became People's Commissar for Food of Ukraine.

In 1920, he was Chairman of the Tambov Gubernia Executive Committee, and was involved in suppression of the Tambov Rebellion.[1][2]

In April 1927 he attended the Fourth Congress of Soviets as commissar of agriculture in the Ukrainian Republic. There, he described 10% of the rural population of Ukraine as being "surplus".[3]

After 1930 he was mostly involved in scientific activity. He was a full member of the Communist Academy from 1930, an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and from 1928, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR from 1933. He became a Doctor of Economics in 1936. From 1931 to 1938, Schlichter was Vice-President of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, at the same time the director of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Marxism-Leninism and then president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Marxist–Leninist Institutions (VUAMLIN) from 1930 to 1936.

He was one of the initiators and active supporters of promoting the theories of Trofim Lysenko.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Lenin. "Lenin: 723. TO E. M. SKLYANSKY". www.marxists.org. MIA. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. ^ Lenin. "Lenin: 727. TO V. S. KORNEV". www.marxists.org. MIA. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
3. ^ Class Struggles in the USSR by Charles Bettelheim.
4. ^ "Н. И. Вавилов и Т. Д. Лысенко в пространстве историко-научных дискуссий • Библиотека". «Элементы» (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-11-21.

Political offices

Preceded by

Mykola Skrypnyk

|  Director of Institute of History of the Party
1930–1933  | Succeeded by

Authority control

International|

* FAST
* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Israel
* United States
* Czech Republic
* Poland

This Soviet biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template