Was Stalin Really Necessary? (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Was Stalin Really Necessary? (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Nove |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-09-28 |
Genre | Soviet Union |
ISBN | 9780415684965 |
First published in 1964, this title deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. It evaluates the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency.
Was Stalin Really Necessary?
Title | Was Stalin Really Necessary? PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Nove |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136629483 |
First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency, which is followed by a controversial discussion of Kremlinology. The author goes on to analyse the situation of the peasants as reflected in literary journals, then looks at industrial and agricultural problems. There are elaborate statistical surveys of occupational patterns and the purchasing power of wages, followed by an examination of the irrational statistical reflection of irrational economic decisions. Professor Nove’s essay on social welfare was, unlike some of his other work, used in the Soviet press as evidence against over-enthusiastic cold-warriors, among whom the author was not always popular. Finally, the author seeks to generalise about the evolution of world communism.
Was Stalin Really Necessary?.
Title | Was Stalin Really Necessary?. PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Nove |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2014-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317744713 |
The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the ‘Opposition Platform’ against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky’s view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program, as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution. Including a sympathetic, but nonetheless astute, introduction to Trotsky’s argument by the translator, The Real Situation in Russia will prove to be of value to all students of twentieth-century Marxism, and in particular to those interested in the Russian Revolution – not only its origins and early development, but also, perhaps, the reasons for its ultimate failure.
Theories of Surplus and Transfer (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Theories of Surplus and Transfer (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Heslop |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317620526 |
First published in 1990, this is an analysis of the history of western economics from Petty to Supply-Side, through the prism of the controversies over productive labour and its product. It treats the early economists’ "productive-unproductive" dichotomies as shorthands for many other sets of distinctions relevant for boundaries, value and welfare. Central to the debates is the question of whether the economy is said to generate a ‘surplus’. Economists and politicians with views on these matters include the Physiocrats, Smith and Ricardo, Marx and his Soviet and western admirers, the marginalists, Keynes, Polanyi, Becker, and Reagan. The book maps the shifting emphases that economists and social thinkers have placed on markets and ‘mode’ of production generally. This reissue will be useful to students of economic thought, welfare theory and policy, growth economics and economic systems.
Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Mervyn Matthews |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136716033 |
First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms, the people who enjoyed them. This study is based on an extensive programme of personal interviews among emigré groups and a close analysis of original and little-known legal historical sources. There are special sections on the nature of change in the Soviet elite and on social mobility. This reissue will attract interest amongst students and scholars concerned with the history, politics and sociology of the Soviet Union; it will also be of value to all those concerned with the age-old problem of social equality.
The Soviet Economy
Title | The Soviet Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Nove |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415682460 |
First published in 1961, The Soviet Economy is a well informed work which seeks to acquaint students with the structure and problems of the economy of the USSR. In a balanced and perceptive analysis, Alexander Nove describes the organisation of economic life and of the planning system, analysing the practical and theoretical problems within the institutional structure of the Soviet system, and introducing the student to Soviet economic ideas and concepts. The subject is then related to the growth of the Soviet economy and to the extent to which both the institutions and the problems reflect the historical peculiarities of the USSR. The author does not try to argue for or against the system or to provide answers but aims to stimulate the reader to enquire further into the more important questions raised by the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet economy.