Yevgeni Preobrazhensky

Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Евгений Преображенский
Member of the 9th Secretariat
In office 5 April 1920 – 16 March 1921
Personal details
Born	15 February 1886 (Old Style) Bolkhov, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	13 February 1937 (aged 50) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Execution
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1927, 1930–1933)

Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky (Russian: Евге́ний Алексе́евич Преображе́нский, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ prʲɪəbrɐˈʐɛnskʲɪj]; 1886–1937) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet economist and sociologist. A member of the governing Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and its successor, the All-Union Communist Party, Preobrazhensky is remembered as a leading voice for the rapid industrialisation of peasant Russia through a concentration on state-owned heavy industry.

Closely associated with Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition movement of the 1920s, Preobrazhensky fell afoul of Stalin. He recanted Trotskyism in 1929, but eventually joined a secret alliance with Trotsky in 1932. He was arrested in 1933 and shot in 1937 during the Great Purge.