Maslov Petr Pavlovich

Genus. in 1867 in the village of Maslovka, Uyskaya village, Troitsk district, Orenburg province, in an Old Believer Cossack family; studied at Kazan University, at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute, at the University of Vienna; a socialist, after 1903 he joined the Mensheviks, and was repeatedly arrested and expelled. After the February Revolution, as part of the Central Land Committee, he took part in the preparation of the land law, was a member of the administrative committee of the League of Agrarian Reforms, and was a member of the Pre-Parliament. After the October Revolution he returned to his homeland, to the village of Maslovka, Troitsk district. At the end of June 1918, he was delegated by the population of the village to the Chelyabinsk district congress of peasants, Cossacks, workers and Muslim deputies, which was held under his chairmanship, and was elected by the congress to the post of chairman of the new executive committee of the Chelyabinsk Committee of People's Power. From July 1918 he served as Commissioner of the Urals under the Provisional Siberian Government, and participated in the State Conference in Ufa. Expressing disagreement with the policies of the Siberian authorities, he resigned and withdrew from political activities. In November 1918 he was appointed professor at the Omsk Agricultural Institute in the department of political economy and statistics, in 1918–1919 he taught at the Omsk Agricultural Institute, in 1919–1921 – at the Irkutsk State University, in 1921–1922 – at the Chita Institute of Public Education, in 1923–1926 - at Moscow University and the Moscow Institute of National Economy. G.V. Plekhanov, in 1924–1929 he worked at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1929 he was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1930 he lived in Moscow, arrested on September 1, 1930 in the case of the Union Bureau of the Mensheviks; sentenced by the Kogpu on April 25, 1931 “for joining a counter-revolutionary Menshevik organization” to deportation from Moscow for 3 years. On April 30, 1931, by resolution of the Kogpu, free residence was allowed. He died in Moscow on June 4, 1946, and was buried in the columbarium of the Novodevichy Cemetery. Rehabilitated by the USSR Prosecutor's Office on August 2, 1990.