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Looking back from the perspective of the mid-1990s, it is hard to
believe that Soviet power for so long presented a threat and a
challenge to the capitalist system. This book examines the
assumptions of Soviet post-war economic theory and policy, traces
the Soviets' analysis of Western economic development from the
post-war period through to the easing of international relations,
and explains why the Soviets themselves believed they were going to
outperform the West.
Looking back from the perspective of the mid-1990s, it is hard to
believe that Soviet power for so long presented a threat and a
challenge to the capitalist system. This book examines the
assumptions of Soviet post-war economic theory and policy, traces
the Soviets' analysis of Western economic development from the
post-war period through to the easing of international relations,
and explains why the Soviets themselves believed they were going to
outperform the West.
What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by
modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to,
or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of
technologically advanced era in which we live, what sources are
available within political theory for theoretical insight
concerning the problem of democratic engagement with technology?
The purpose of this volume is to canvas a broad range of theorists
and theoretical traditions in order to address these questions,
including Hegel and Marx, Rousseau and John Dewey, Heidegger and
Simone Weil, Habermas and Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Hans
Jonas. Commentaries on all these important thinkers -- focused on
the issue of contemporary technology as posing unique social and
political challenges for democratic political life -- yields rich
and ambitious resources for theoretical reflection.
Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are
shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking
about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings
together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought
and action in this realm.
Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky was Russia's foremost economist in the
1920s. This volume editorially reconstructs his theory of socialist
industrialisation in an agrarian country and relates it to previous
socialist theories and to issues of political struggle, culture and
communist morality. The editors create a unique portrait of
Preobrazhensky as an economist and social theorist, assess the
viability of NEP as a model of economic growth, and identify the
fault lines that contributed to the split in the Trotskyist
Opposition and its defeat in the struggle against Stalin. The bulk
of the work included in this volume consists of the important An
Attempt to Provide a Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy,
while the material in Volume III focuses on concrete analysis.
Historians generally recognise E.A. Preobrazhensky as the most
famous Soviet economist of the 1920s. The documents in this volume,
many newly discovered and almost all translated into English for
the first time, reveal a Preobrazhensky previously unknown, whose
interests ranged far beyond economics to include not only party
debates and issues affecting the lives of workers and peasants, but
also philosophy, world events and Russian history, culture and
politics. Including moments of triumph and tragedy, they tell an
intimate story of political awakening.
Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky was Russia's foremost economist in the
1920s. This volume editorially reconstructs his theory of socialist
industrialisation in an agrarian country and relates it to previous
socialist theories and to issues of political struggle, culture and
communist morality. The bulk of the work included in this volume
consists of Preobrazhensky's Concrete Analysis of the Soviet
Economy, which supplements his theoretical inquiry published in
Volume II. A number of appendices present Preobrazhensky's analysis
of the NEP and his correspondence with Trotsky alongside extensive
contributions by the volume's editors and translators.
The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon
Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution
in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent
Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this
volume, most of them translated into English for the first time,
demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a
debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading international
Marxists, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring,
Parvus and David Ryazanov.
The theory of imperialism is primarily associated with the most
prominent figures in the history of European Marxism. However, the
theory was actually developed through engaged debates within the
Second International from 1898-1916. This volume assembles and
translates for the first time all of the main documents produced
over the course of these discussions. It is part of the Historical
Materialism Book Series.
A large literature exists in the West on the state that emerged
from the October Revolution, and the internal controversies that
punctuated its development have themselves been extensively
examined. Richard Day's book advances into territory hitherto large
neglected by Soviet scholarship - the complex debates among
economists and politicians about the course and fate of the
capitalist system. Day recounts the conflicting assessments of
capitalism's restabilization after the First World War, detailing
the theories of economic specialists like Kondrat'ev and Varga as
well as the analyses of political theorists like Trotsky and
Bukharin. He traces the Soviet response to the 1929 slump and
documents the mounting political interference in scientific
economic controversy by the Stalin leadership, culminating in the
scurrilous assault on the most original Soviet economist of the
1920s: Evgeny Preobrazhensky. This scholarly book concludes with an
account of Soviet reactions to the new era inaugurated by sweeping
state intervention designed to eliminate capitalist crisis, as
embodied in the diverse examples of Nazism and Roosevelt's New
Deal.
A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet
Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the
standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At
the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's
concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist theorist
is essential. Professor Day concentrates upon the economic
implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe. How
to build socialism - in a backward, war-ravaged society, without
aid from the West: this problem lay behind many of the most
important political conflicts of Soviet Russia's formative years.
Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich
Rubin is a collection of primary sources dealing with the reception
of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third
International. The documents, translated for the first time from
German and Russian, range from the original reviews of the three
volumes of Capital and the three volumes of Theories of Surplus
Value to the debates between the Marxist economists and the
bourgeois academic representatives of the theory of marginal
utility and the German historical school.
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