The Politics and Economics of the Transition Period

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For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has recently been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin's work has wide appeal to those interested in Soviet history and Marxist economics as well as to those concerned with theories of development and socialist economies. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Editor’s Introduction Part IThe Theory of the Dictatorship of theProletariat Foreword 1 A General Theory of the State 2 The Necessity of the Dictatorship of theProletariat 3 The Collapse of Democracy and the Dictatorshipof the Proletariat 4 Soviet Power as a Form of ProletarianDictatorship Part IIThe Economics of the Transition Period Foreword 1 The Structure of World Capitalism 2 Economics, State Power and War 3 The Collapse of the Capitalist System 4 The General Preconditions for the Building ofCommunism 5 Town and Country in the Process of SocialT ransformation 6 The Productive Forces, the Costs of theRevolution and the Technical Revolution 7 The General Organizational Forms of theTransition Period 8 The Systems of Production Control Under theDictatorship of the Proletariat 9 The Economic Categories of Capitalism in theTransition Period 10 ‘Non-Economic’ Coercion in the TransitionPeriod 11 The World Revolutionary Process and the WorldSystem of Communism Part IIIDiagrammatic Tables relating to The Economicsof the Transition Period Editor’s Appendices Appendix I Bukharin’s Theory of Expanded Negative Reproduction Appendix II On Lenin’s Remarks on The187Economics of the Transition Period Notes and References Bibliography Subject Index Name Index General Index