Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

by Anthony Arnove, Tony Cliff, Ahmed Shawki, Chris Harman

Overview

To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalism—unemployment, poverty, the threat of new wars—to place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608465453
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Series:	International Socialism
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Anthony Arnove: Anthony Arnove produced the Academy Award-nominated documentary Dirty Wars and wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn. He is the editor of several books, including Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which Arnove co-edited with Zinn, The Essential Chomsky, and Iraq Under Siege, and is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. He is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Review.
Tony Cliff: Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of the Soviet Union as a bureaucratic, state-centered version of capitalism, rather than a workers' state. His many works include State Capitalism in Russia and the volume that follows-up from this book, All Power to the Soviets, about Lenin's political leadership from 1914 to 1917.
Ahmed Shawki: Ahmed Shawki is the editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism.
Chris Harman: Chris Harman is the author of several books, including A People’s History of the World.

Table of Contents

1 Workers' revolution and beyond Tony Cliff 1

2 How the revolution was lost Chris Harman 7

3 The nature of Stalinist Russia and the Eastern Bloc Chris Harman 29

4 The theory of state capitalism Peter Binns 61

Appendices

Eighty years since the Russian Revolution Ahmed Shawki 85

The fall of Stalinism: Ten years on Anthony Arnove 121

Further Reading 141

Notes 143