Title Class Theory and History : Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (766 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Communism; Chapter 1: A General Class Theory; The Classical Tradition; Our Basic Terms; Utopia and Communism: A Brief Digression; A Concrete Communism; Communist Class Structures: Centralization versus Decentralization; Culture, Politics, and Economics of Communism; Appendix: How Societies Differ-A Methodological Problem; Notes; Chapter 2: The Many Forms of Communism; Class and Property; Class and Markets; Class and Power; Classless Communism and Proletarian Dictatorship; Socialism and Communism; Notes Part 2: State CapitalismChapter 3: A Class Theory of State Capitalism; Capitalisms and Exploitation; Justifying the Label "Capitalist"; Value Analysis for State Capitalism: A Technical Digression; Capitalisms, Communisms, and Socialisms; Notes; Chapter 4: Debates over State Capitalism; Conflicting Concepts; Power as the Theoretical Key; Weaknesses of Power Theories; Notes; Part 3: The Rise and Fall of the USSR; Chapter 5: Class Structures and Tensions before 1917; The Fundamentals: Feudal, Ancient, Capitalist, and Communist; The Complexities; The Contradictions and the Revolution; Notes Chapter 6: Revolution, War Communism, and the AftermathChanging the State and Class Structures; Organizing the New Class Structures; A Class and Value Analysis of War Communism; Class Contradictions after War Communism; Notes; Chapter 7: Revolution, Class, and the Soviet Household; Bolshevik Class Blindness; New Economic Policy/Old Household Policy; Notes; Chapter 8: The New Economic Policies of the 1920s; Relations between Agriculture and Industry: An Overview; The NEP in Class and Value Terms; A History of NEP Contradictions; Adjusting State Industrial Capitalism Revolution and NEP as a Transition to State CapitalismNotes; Chapter 9: The Transformations of the 1930s; New Complexities and Contradictions; Communism in Agriculture; State Capitalism and Industry; The Industrial Workers; Stalinism and Class; Appendix A: The Value Equation for Collective Farms; Appendix B: The Value Crisis of Collective Farms; Notes; Chapter 10: Class Contradictions and the Collapse; Class Structures after World War Two; Postwar Culture; Postwar Politics; Postwar Economy; State, Enterprise, and Household Transitions; The Collapse Appendix A: The Value Equation for Military ExpendituresAppendix B: The Value Equation for International Terms of Trade; Notes; References; Index Summary First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company Notes Print version record Subject Social classes -- Soviet Union Communism -- Soviet Union. Communism. Capitalism. Capitalism Communism Social classes Social conditions Social policy SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125852 Soviet Union -- Social policy Subject Soviet Union Form Electronic book Author Wolff, Richard D ISBN 9781136704338 1136704337

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