Aleksei Gastev
RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONIST (1882-1939)
Alexei Gastev
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev () (8 October 1882, Suzdal, Vladimir Governorate – 15 April 1939, Kommunarka, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary, a pioneering theorist of the scientific management of labour in Soviet Russia, a trade-union activist, and an avant-garde writer and poet.