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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Paperback)
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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Paperback)
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Loot Price R518
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Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first
significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society.
According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that
once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away
from capitalism - a long transition that continues even today. In
seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the
trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia - and,
by extension, the future of socialism itself. Amin manages to
combine an analysis of class struggle with geopolitics - each
crucial to understanding Russia's singular and complex political
history. He first looks at the development (or lack thereof) of
Russian capitalism. He sees Russia's geopolitical isolation as the
reason its capitalist empire developed so differently from Western
Europe, and the reason for Russia's perceived "backwardness." Yet
Russia's unique capitalism proved to be the rich soil in which the
Bolsheviks were able to take power, and Amin covers the rise and
fall of the revolutionary Soviet system. Finally, in a powerful
chapter on Ukraine and the rise of global fascism, Amin lays out
the conditions necessary for Russia to recreate itself, and perhaps
again move down the long road to socialism. Samir Amin's great
achievement in this book is not only to explain Russia's historical
tragedies and triumphs, but also to temper our hopes for a quick
end to an increasingly insufferable capitalism. This book offers a
cornucopia of food for thought, as well as an enlightening means to
transcend reductionist arguments about "revolution" so common on
the left. Samir Amin's book - and the actions that could spring
from it - are more necessary than ever, if the world is to avoid
the barbarism toward which capitalism is hurling humanity.
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