Stephen A Resnick, Richard D Wolff

Class Theory and History

Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Class Theory and History" takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available, and use that theory to answer the question: did communism ever exist in the USSR and if so, where, why and for how long? Their initial, and controversial, conclusion: Soviet industry never established a communist class structure. This conclusion then leads to the hypothesis that the USSR and provate capitalism in the United States to discuss the future of private capitalism, state capitalism and communism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780415933179
• ISBN-10: 041593317X
• Artikelnr.: 21002241

Autorenporträt

Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Communism
Chapter 1 A General Class Theory
Chapter 2 The Many Forms of Communism
Part 2 State Capitalism
Chapter 3 A Class Theory of State Capitalism
Chapter 4 Debates over State Capitalism
Part 3 The Rise and Fall of the USSR
Chapter 5 Class Structures and Tensions before 1917
Chapter 6 Revolution, War Communism, and the Aftermath
Chapter 7 Revolution, Class, and the Soviet Household
Chapter 8 The New Economic Policies of the 1920s
Chapter 9 The Transformations of the 1930s
Chapter 10 Class Contradictions and the Collapse