Vladimir Milyutin

Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Милю́тин; 5 September 1884 – 30 October 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik leader, Soviet statesman, economist, and statistician who was People's Commissar for Agriculture in the original Soviet government formed on the day of the October Revolution but resigned in protest against Vladimir Lenin's initial decision to form a government without the other parties.

In August 1917, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b), and was based in St Petersburg as one of the most active Bolsheviks leaders for the next three months.

[5] He also opposed Leon Trotsky over the issue of importance of economic planning, which Milyutin disparaged to the extent that Lenin publicly accused him in an article published in Pravda in February 1921 of writing "twaddle" and exhibiting "highbrow disdain" for practical achievements.

[6] He inadvertently again offended Lenin in autumn 1922 by proposing an end to the state monopoly on foreign trade, arguing that private cross-border commerce would boost the soviet economy, and reduce smuggling.

[8] Milyutin was arrested on 26 July 1937 during the Great Purge on accounts of belonging to a secret counter revolutionary organization, and was sentenced to death on 29 October 1937.