Socialism in Russia: Theory and Practice

by Nodari Simonia

Overview

This study by Simonia is among the first to present an in-depth analysis of the theory and practical effect of the transition to socialism in Russia. The work consists of two parts: the first deals with the attempt initiated by Lenin to affect a socialist system, the evolution of his theoretical thought, and his search for a model of indirect transition to socialism (through state capitalism); the second analyzes Stalin's direct declaration of state-bureaucratic socialism, his distortion of the ideas of cooperation, state capitalism, and socialist accumulation, and the failure of his communist society. In concluding, Simonia relates Russia's socialist development to its current economic and socio-political problems, providing insights into its tortuous and thorny history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313288302
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/23/1994
Series:	Contributions in Political Science , #33
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1560L (what's this?)

About the Author

NODARI A. SIMONIA is Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Russia and is the author of a number of books, including Synthesis of Traditional and Modern in the Evolution of Third World Societies (Greenwood, 1992).

Table of Contents

A Bid For Socialism
Russia as the Secondary Model of Capitalism
The Concept of "Secondary Model"
Specificity of the Secondary Model in Russia
A Feature of Bourgeois Evolution
Russian Imperialism
The Problem of The Transitional Period
State Capitalism—the Linchpin of the Transitional Period
Small-Commodity Producers Wedded to State Capitalism
The State and Private Enterprise Capitalism
Administrative Decentralization and Economic Centralization in the Public Sector
The "Passage to Socialism": The Stalin Model
Stalin's Interpretation of NEP
Stalin on Cooperatives
The Problem of "Socialist Accumulation"
The Dismantling of NEP: Stalin's Collectivization Drive
First Strike at the Countryside
Mounting Struggle in Leadership
Falling Out With "Bukharinists"
Total Collectivization
"Dizzy With Success"
First Upshot of Collectivization
Mechanism of Extra-Economic Product Expropriation
The Dismantling of NEP: Stalin's Industrialization Drive
Two Types of Industrialization
The Ejection of the Private Sector
Nationalized Sector Transformed
Crash Industrialization
Consolidation of the Administrative-Command Mechanism
Did Stalin Create the Basis of Socialism?
Technical Intellectuals
The Level of Physical Labor Force
Economic Functions of Terror
Planirovanie and Planomernost' Equated
"Transition to Communism"