Maria Smith-Falkner

Biography

• 1901-05 - studied at the faculty of economics of the University of London.
• 1918-19 – chief of the department of economic research at VSNH. Member of the Coil Section of the VSNH.
• 1919 – served in the Red Army in the Southern Front in the course of the Russian Civil War.
• Since 1921 – taught at universities and colleges in Moscow.
• 1925 – earned her doctorate in economics.
• 1921 – 1924 – professor at the faculty of social studies of Moscow State University
• 1924 – 1930 – professor at Moscow Institute of National Economy after Plekhanov.
• 1925 – 1934 - full member scholar at the Communist Academy of the Central Executive Committee.
• 1926 – 1930 – member of Board of the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR.
• 1930 – 1934 – professor at the International Lenin School.
• 1934 – 1936 – professor at the Economic Research Institute attached to the Gosplan.
• 1937 – editor of the State Socio-Economic Publishing House.
• 1938 – 1941 – professor at Moscow Economic Planning Institute.
• 1941 – 1944 – senior staff scientist at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of USSR.
• 1944 – 1946 – senior staff scientist at the Institute of Foreign Trade.
• 1948 – 1955 – team manager at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

  Scientific interests

Major works

• Prodovolstvennyi vopros v Anglii St. Petersburg, 1917, The book was marked by Vladimir Lenin in the Book Chroncle journal
• Klassovaia borba v sovremennoi Anglii, Moscow, 1922
• Dinamika krizisov i polozhenie proletariata, Moscow, 1927
• Teoriia i praktika sovetskoi statistiki , Moscow, 1930
• Polozhenie rabochego klassa kapitalisicheskikh stran v svete teorii obnishchaniia Karla Marksa Moscow, 1933
• Polozhenie rabochego klassa v SShA,Anglii i Frantsii posle vtoroi mirovoi voiny Moscow, 1953
• Ocherki istorii burzhuaznoi politicheskoi ekonomii Moscow, 1961

  Awards and prizes