Vladimir Groman
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Vladimir Gustavovich Groman (Russian: Влади́мир Густа́вович Гро́ман; 21 February, 1874 – 11 March, 1940) was a Menshevik economist and statistician active in Gosplan, the Soviet Union's central economic planning agency and the Central Statistical Directorate.
Groman was the son of a German father and Russian mother. He joined the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905. He was exiled to Tver Oblast where he developed his statistical methods.
First World War
Groman was concerned with rising food prices which started following the outbreak of the First World War. He was involved in the 'Committee to Study the Current High Prices' set up by the Chuprov Society. In 1915 the Tsarist authorities were concerned about the disorganisation of the economy and set up the Special Council on Food Supply, to which Gorman was appointed as representative of the Union of Cities.[1] In 1916 he worked with the Kadet, Mitrofan Voronkov to lobby for a lower fixed price for grain: originally over-ruled by Minister of Agriculture, Aleksei Bobrinsky, a spokesperson for landed interest, they would not let the matter drop and when the Minister of War, Dmitry Shuvayev became involved, Bobrinsky's policy was overthrown and Voronkov became a much quoted spokesperson on the topic.[2]
