Sholom Moiseevich Dvolaitsky (, S. M. Dvolaitsky; 1893–27 November, 1937) was a Soviet economist and state official.
Biography Dvolajckij was born in Zhagare, Kovno Governorate in the Russian Empire.
He collaborated with Alexander Bogdanov in producing the 10th revised edition of Kratkii kurs ekonomicheskoi nauki (1920) which appeared in an English translation by Joe Fineberg as A Short Course in Economic Science (1923).Biggart, John; Georgii Gloveli; Avraham Yassour (1998) Bogdanov and his Work. A guide to the published and unpublished works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky) 1873-1928, p 340 Aldershot: Ashgate.
However Bogdanov was to criticise Dvolaitsky's view that the method of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital was not applicable to the analysis of non-capitalist social-economic formations.
In 1928, his Ćastnyj kapital v torgovle SSSR was published in Russia.
In 1934 his translation of a chapter of Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital was published in Moscow: Tugan-Baranovsky
He was director of the Department of Culture and Propaganda of the Azov-Black Sea Territorial Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) from 1936–7 when he was purged.Getty J. A. & Naumov O. V. (2002) The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 Yale:Yale History Press He was arrested on 15 October 1937 and tried and shot on 27 November 1937. His ashes are buried in the Donskoye Cemetery
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