Selected Political and Economic Writings: From the Hungarian Revolution to the Orthodox Economic Theory in the USSR

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"Born in 1879, Eugen Varga would become the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union - 'Stalin's economist'. This volume contains a wide and representative selection of his works, dating from his entry into the Hungarian Communist Party in 1919 through to his criticisms of John Maynard Keynes in the 1950s. It includes the entire text of his Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship, according to Lenin probably the best work on the collapse of the revolutionary government in Hungary. Adetailed critical introduction by Varga's biographer, Andrâe Mommen, supplies valuable background detail on the circumstances of Varga's work, contextualising it in relation to political events and the development of orthodox economic theory in the USSR"-- ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Abbreviations ‎Tables ‎About Translations, Transliteration and References ‎Eugen Varga: An Introduction to His Life and Works (Mommen) ‎Part 1. The Hungarian Councils’ Republic (1919) ‎Introduction to Part 1 ‎Chapter 1. Political-Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship ‎Part 2. The Comintern Years (1920–38) ‎Introduction to Part 2 ‎Chapter 2. The International Situation: A Study of Capitalism in Collapse (Presented to the Moscow Congress, 1921) by Leon Trotsky and Prof. E. Varga ‎Chapter 3. Economic Basis of Imperialism in the US of North America ‎Chapter 4. The Economic Crisis of Germany ‎Chapter 5. The Crisis of the Capitalist World Economy ‎Chapter 6. The Situation of the World Economy and the Evolution of the World Economic Policy during the Last Three Years ‎Chapter 7. The Process of Capitalist Decline (Report to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International) ‎Chapter 8. The Decline of Capitalism ‎Chapter 9. Introduction to: Materials on the Situation of the Peasant Movement in the Most Important Countries ‎Chapter 10. The Decline of Capitalism: The Economics of a Period of the Decline of Capitalism after Stabilisation ‎Chapter 11. Accumulation and Breakdown of Capitalism ‎Chapter 12. The Great Crisis and Its Political Consequences: Economics and Politics 1928–34 ‎Part 3. The General Crisis of Capitalism (1939–64) ‎Chapter 13. The Imperialist Struggle for a New Redivision of the World ‎Chapter 14. Changes in Capitalism during the War ‎Chapter 15. Plans for Currency Stabilisation ‎Chapter 16. World Currency Headache ‎Chapter 17. Toward a New Crash? ‎Chapter 18. The General Crisis of Capitalism (Features of the Home and Foreign Policy of the Capitalist Countries during the Epoch of the General Crisis of Capitalism) ‎Chapter 19. Democracy of a New Type ‎Chapter 20. Anglo-American Rivalry and Partnership: A Marxist View ‎Chapter 21. The Increased Role of the State in the Economy of the Capitalist Countries ‎Chapter 22. The Impoverishment Tendencies in the War Economy of the Capitalist Countries ‎Chapter 23. Concentration and Centralisation of Production and Capital during the War ‎Chapter 24. Economic Regulation and Absence of Planning in the Capitalist Countries during the War ‎Chapter 25. Towards an Economic Crisis in the USA ‎Chapter 26. Crisis Hits the USA ‎Chapter 27. Problems of the Postwar Industrial Cycle and the New Crisis of Overproduction ‎Chapter 28. The Problem of Inter-imperialist Contradictions and War ‎Chapter 29. Changes in the Reproduction Cycle Following the Second World War ‎Chapter 30. Problems of State-Monopoly Capitalism ‎Bibliography ‎Index