Crisis and the Crash
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A large literature exists in the West on the state that emerged from the October Revolution, and the internal controversies that punctuated its development have themselves been extensively examined. Richard Day's new book advances into territory hitherto largely neglected by Soviet scholarship - the complex debates among economists and politicians about the course and fate of the capitalist system. Day recounts the conflicting assessments of capitalism's restabilization after the First World War, detailing the theories of economic specialists like Kondrarev and Varga as well as the analyses of political theorists like Trotsky and Bukharin. He traces the Soviet response to the 1929 slump and documents the mounting political interference in scientific economic controversy by the Stalin leadership. culminating in the scurrilous assault on the most original Soviet economist of the 1920s: Evgeny Preobrazhensky. This scholarly book concludes with an account of Soviet reactions to the new era inaugurated by sweeping state intervention design. ed to eliminate capitalist crisis, as embodied in the diverse examples of Nazism and Roosevelt's New Deal.
The 'Crisis' and the 'Crash' is a notable event for students of the Soviet Union and of the history of Marxist political economy.
The 'Crisis' and the 'Crash' is a notable event for students of the Soviet Union and of the history of Marxist political economy.
Richard B. Day was born in Canada in 1942. He was educated at the University of Toronto and subsequently did postgraduate work there and at the University of London. where he received his doctorate in 1970. Since then he has taught in the Department of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. In addition to numerous articles on Marxist and Soviet economics and related topics, Professor Day has written Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge. 1973) and is the editor and translator of N.I. Bukharin. Selected Writings on Political Economy.