Mihhail Bronštein

Mihhail Bronštein (; 23 January 1923 – 09 April 2022) was a Soviet and Estonian economist, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Economic and political views In an interview Bronštein admitted that he started as a orthodoxal Marxist. However over time his views undergone evolution and he argued in favor of introducing of the elements of market economy in agriculture. For this he was attacked by the chief Soviet ideologist Mikhail Suslov. Nevertheless the efforts of Bronštein had led to considerable improvement of Estonian agriculture and condition of its workers, compared to the rest of the Soviet Union. The Tallinn Synagogue is known as Beit Bella in memory of Bella Barskaya.