The Preobrazhensky Papers: The New Economics Theory and Practice: 1922-1928. Volume II

Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky was Russia?s foremost economist in the 1920s. This volume editorially reconstructs his theory of socialist industrialisation in an agrarian country and relates it to previous socialist theories and to issues of political struggle, culture and communist morality. The editors create a unique portrait of Preobrazhensky as an economist and social theorist, assess the viability of NEP as a model of economic growth, and identify the fault lines that contributed to the split in the Trotskyist Opposition and its defeat in the struggle against Stalin. The bulk of the work consists of the important 'An Attempt to Provide a Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy', while the material in Volume III focuses on concrete analysis E.A. Preobrazhensky was the most famous Soviet economist of the 1920s. Including newly discovered and previously untranslated documents, Volume I of The Preobrazhensky Papers reveals his political awakening through autobiographical memoirs and extensive commentary on philosophy, world events, and Russian history, culture and politics.