Andrei Berzin Explained

Andrei Berzin
School Tradition:Marxian economics
Native Name:Andrejs Bērziņš
Native Name Lang:lv
Birth Date:21 January 1893
Birth Place:Majorenhof, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Death Place:Latvian SSR, USSR
Nationality:Latvian

Andrei Gasparovich Berzin (Russian: link=no|Андрей Гаспарович Берзин, Latvian: Andrejs Bērziņš; January 23, 1893, Majorenhof, Governorate of Livonia — 1951, Latvian SSR) was a Soviet politician.

After the Russian Civil War Berzin remained in Soviet Russia, where he worked as deputy head of the administrative and financial department of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture.

In 1930, along with other economists Nikolai Kondratiev, Alexander Chayanov and he was arrested by Cheka in the case of the so-called . In 1931, Berzin was exiled to Kazakhstan, where he worked as an economist-planner at Soyuzpromkorm.

In 1938, during the Latvian Operation of the NKVD Berzin was arrested again and imprisoned in a Gulag correctional labour camp until the end of World War II, after which he was released and allowed to return to Moscow.

First husband of actress Lyubov Orlova (1926—1930). After the arrest, the actress did not know anything about his fate. According to the biographers, while already being a wife of Grigory Alexandrov, she had asked Stalin to find out about Berzin and help him.

Berzin died in 1951 from cancer in Latvia, where he was living with his relatives.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Берзин, Андрей Гаспарович — RuData.ru. April 26, 2018. www.rudata.ru. ru.