For a Concrete Theory of Transition The Political Practice of the Bolsheviks in Power

Abstract Obstacles to the Concrete Understanding of the Social Formation in Transition: Analytical Principles I. Coherent Economic Systems and the Organization of Production and Exchange Combinations of Different Modes of Production in the First Part of the Soviet Transition The Alliance System among the Modes of Production II. Specific Aspects of the Class Struggle Under the NEP and Social Forms Proper to this Stage The Characteristics of the NEP as Seen Through the Prism of the Class Struggle The Concept of Class Alliances Note on the Periodization and the History of the NEP The Objective Threshold of 1925–6 Specific Forms of the Obscuring of the Social Formation under the NEP Agriculture Trade and industry III. The NEP: Aims and Results Balance Sheet and Consequences of the NEP The NEP Strategy from the Economic Viewpoint The Ideal NEP as a Strategy at the Level of Ideological Superstructures The Balance Sheet of the Real NEP: The Interrupted Revolution References