Yevgeni Preobrazhensky

Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky (1886-1937) was an Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and, its successor, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He co-wrote the book The ABCs of Communism with Nikolai Bukharin. He also wrote The New Economics, a polemical essay on the dynamics of an economy in transition to socialism. He was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and shot in 1937.