Gusev Tikhonovich
Gusev Bogdan Tikhonovich is a Soviet Politician and Theorist. He leads the Techocratic-Communist’s a faction within The Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Early Life:
Gusev was born on December 4, 1891, in Moscow, Russian Empire to a wealthy family. His father, an engineer, wanted him to pursue a similar career and held no interest in politic's up to 1905. At 14, he witnessesed, Bloody Sunday, something that turned him and his family against the tsar. As a result, Gusev, start agreeing with more radical calls for change and became a follower of Marx by 1913.
In 1910, Gusev joined Russian Social Democratic Labour Party aligned himself to the Bolshevik faction working as an agent. Around, 1915 Gusev started embracing technocratic ideals following Edward Bellamy and Thorstein Veblen.
He started development of his theory of "Techocratic-Communism" in 1916 when in France. In his book, "The Technocratic Utopia", where he called for a centralized state where the scientists and bureaucrat's run everything while riding inequality through the purse of science.
Rise in The Government:
After the October Revolution, he was finally able to return home and worked under Nikolai Bukharin as a regional manager. Gusev quickly gained popularity with the youth of the party that leaned towards "idealistic' thinking. Gusev, by 1919, also agreed with 'Stalin's Socialism in one country' believing that Leon Trotsky's plan was too reckless.
Because these factors he was able to from 'Techocratic-Communist’s', a faction within The Communist Party of the Soviet Union by 1923,
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