Nikolai kondratieff biography

Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev, 1892-1938?

The Soviet Russian economist, Nikolai Kondratiev (or Kondratieff), well-known for his contributions to business cycle empirics. 

Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev war born in Kostroma, to a peasant family, but went on to become a student of Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky at the University of St.

Petersburg, where Kondratiev stayed on to teach.  Kondratiev became caught up in politics, and joined the  Social Revolutionary Party (SRs).  He was appointed deputy minister for food supply in the last Kerensky government in 1917.  Although initially collaborating with the Bolsheviks after the October 1917 revolution, Kondratiev was briefly arrested in 1918 for opposing their food policies.

In 1919, Kondratiev moved to Moscow to teach at the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy (now Moscow State Agricultural University), becoming full professor by 1923.  In 1920, Kondratiev founded and headed the Moscow