Excellent four-part analysis of the economic system of the Soviet Union examining the most common theories of its nature and pointing out their strengths and flaws.
- What was the USSR? Part I: Trotsky and State Capitalism
- What was the USSR? Part II: Russia as a Non-mode of Production
- What was the USSR? Part III: Left communism and the Russian revolution
- What was the USSR? Part IV: Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value
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just a quick note because these four articles are now collated together, they are also now all nicely formatted with proper footnotes etc. It's interesting stuff, recommended.
Are there PDF files of these "What was the USSR?" articles?
no, but or Joseph Kay might be able to get them if you needed them
I really, really, loved this series of articles and I don't know if I ever would have read them if it wasn't for libcom. Thanks!
You dork!
No, thanks for your comment - I thought these were really good as well, and much more interesting and practical and I thought they would be.
I got sunburn reading these articles for about two hours on a lilo in Italy.
Club Med eat your heart out!