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;
Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff
"A very ambitious and interesting book on a very important topic."
-- Howard Sherman, author of Reinventing Marxism
"Using a version of Marx's theory of class to explain the rise and
fall of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union as evidence for the
validity of this theory, Resnick and Wolff succeed in providing us
with an original and fascinating account of both. Whether one
agrees or disagrees with their results, no future work on either of
these important subjects will be able to ignore the sheer creative
verve and intellectual rigor with which they lay out their
arguments. Very highly recommended." -- Bertell Ollman, editor of
Market Socialism: The DebateAmong Socialists
"A stunning achievement! Resnick and Wolff have extended their path
breaking work in Knowledge and Class to a full-fledged class
analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Building on the
clearest analysis of class in the Marxian tradition, Resnick and
Wolff provide a comprehensive analysis of the core contradictions
in pre-Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. This is a work that all
those concerned with the Soviet experience, the nature of class,
and the possibilities of fundamental social change will have to
contend with." -- Victor D. Lippit, editor of Radical Political
Economy: Explorationsin Alternative Economic Analysis
"Class Theory and History both follows in the best Marxian
tradition's footsteps and develops new important insights. Building
upon a notion of class whose pivot is the production and
distribution of surplus, the authors offer a stimulating and
original interpretation of the USSR's birth, development, and fall.
This is class analysis at its best, a work which deserves the
widest circulation." -- Guglielmo Carchedi author of For
AnotherEurope: A Class Analysis of European Economic
Integration
"Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, both economics professors,
approach Soviet history on a highly theoretical level, analyzing
the productive relations in Soviet society with sometimes
mathematical (or, perhaps, pseudomathematical) precision...[A]
strikingly original argument." -- Humanities and Social Sciences
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