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Book SynopsisEvgeny 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
Abbreviations
Foreword to the First Edition
Part 1 [Socialist and Communist Conceptions of Socialism]
Introduction to Part 1: Socialist and Communist Conceptions of Socialism
[1] The Great Utopians
1 Saint-Simon
2 Fourier
3 Étienne Cabet
4 Robert Owen
[2] The Communists
1 August Blanqui
2 The Parisian Dictatorship
3 Marx and Engels
[3] French Syndicalism
1 Against the State
2 Against Parliamentarism
3 The Way beyond Capitalism. The General Strike
4 Preparing for a New Society within the Old One
5 The Period of Transition to Communism
6 The Future Society
7 Anti-imperialism and Anti-militarism
8 Syndicalism, Revisionism and Marxism
9 The Syndicalists and Bolshevism
Part 2 [Foundations of a Theory of the Soviet Economy]
4 On the Method of Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy
1 The Marxist Method of Political Economy
2 Political Economy and Social Technology
3 The Method of Studying the Commodity-Socialist System of Economy
5 The Law of Primitive Socialist Accumulation
1 Primitive Capitalist and Primitive Socialist Accumulation
2 The Struggle between Two Laws
6 The Law of Value in the Soviet Economy
1 General Observations
2 The Law of Value and Monopoly Capitalism
3 The Law of Value with Socialisation of Industry in a Peasant Country
4 The Commodity, the Market and Prices
5 Surplus Value, Surplus Product, and Wages
6 The Category of Profit in the State Economy
7 The Category of Rent
8 Interest and the Credit System
9 Cooperation
Appendix 1: Foreword to the Second Edition
Appendix 2: Once Again on Socialist Accumulation
Appendix 3: Reply to Comrades Karev and Kapitonov
Appendix 4: Debate on the Report of Comrade Preobrazhensky on ‘The Law of Value in the Soviet Economy’
Appendix 5: Economic Notes. On the Benefits of a Theoretical Study of the Soviet Economy
Appendix 6: Declaration of E.A. Preobrazhensky to the Presidium of the XV Conference of the All-Union Communist Party(B)
Biographical Index
References
Index
