Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine

Marx and Russia is a chronological account of the evolution of Marxist thought from the publication of Das Kapital in Russian translation to the suppression of independent ideological currents by Stalin at the end of the 1920s. The book demonstrates the progressive emergence of different schools of Marxist thinking in the revolutionary era in Russia.

Starting from Marx's own connections with Russian revolutionaries and scholars, James D. White examines the contributions of such figures as Si...