Pavel Maksakovsky

Pavel V. Maksakovsky (1900 – 2 November 1928) was a Russian and Soviet economist.

Maksakovsky was born in 1900 in Ilevo, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. His father and brothers were metalworkers, but in 1912 their factory closed down. He was captured by Anton Denikin's White Army and sentenced to death, but managed to escape. An English translation and introduction by Richard B. Day at the University of Toronto Mississauga was published in Historical Materialism Volume 10, Issue 3 in 2002. The translation was later republished in hardcover by Brill Academic Publishers in 2004 and in paperback in 2009 by Haymarket Books. A Swedish translation of the essay was published in the journal Fronesis in 2014.

A brief description of the book is in Crisis theory.