Petr Maslov (economist)

Petr Pavlovich Maslov (15(27) July, 1867 maslovka - 4 June, 1946 Moscow) was a Russian economist.
Maslov attended at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute. He was in contact with the Marxist study circle of Nikolai Fedoseev, a contact which led to his arrest in 1889. He joined the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, and became a spokesperson on agrarian reform. He advocated the municipalisation of the land, in order to appeal to the peasantry by expropriating the land without compensation, and making it available to them cheaply, without giving them ownership. This was similar to a proposal by Lenin, except the latter wanted the land owned by central government.