Pavel Maksakovsky

Pavel Maksakovsky (1900 - 2 November 1928) was a Russian economist.

Maksakovsky was born in 1900 in Ilevo, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. His father and brothers were metalworkers, but in 1912 their factory closed down. After four years working on the land, they moved to Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine.

After the Rada declared independence in 1917, Maksakovsky joined the underground resistance. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918, voluneering with the Red Army when it reached Ekaterinoslav in 1919. . He was captured by Anton Denikin's White Army and sentenced to death, but managed to escape.

From 1920-24 he worked as an instructor at a Bolshevik party school in Sverdlovsk, Ukraine and was invited to join the Institute of Red Professors in 1925. During this period he suffered recurring bouts of illness which ultimately led to his untimely death at the age of 28 in 1928.

His major work 'The Capitalist Cycle: An Essay on the Marxist Theory of the Cycle' was published posthumously in 1300 copies by the Communist Academy in 1929.