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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
2016
Overview
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first
significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society.
According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that
once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away
from capitalism - a long transition that continues even today. In
seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the
trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia - and,
by extension, the future of socialism itself.
Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with
geopolitics - each crucial to understanding Russia's singular and
complex political history. He first looks at the development (or
lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia's geopolitical
isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so
differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia's
perceived \"backwardness.\" Yet Russia's unique capitalism proved to
be the rich soil in which the Bolsheviks were able to take power,
and Amin covers the rise and fall of the revolutionary Soviet
system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on Ukraine and the rise of
global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions necessary for Russia
to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long road to
socialism. Samir Amin's great achievement in this book is not only
to explain Russia's historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to
temper our hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable
capitalism.
This book offers a cornucopia of food for thought, as well as an
enlightening means to transcend reductionist arguments about
\"revolution\" so common on the left. Samir Amin's book - and the
actions that could spring from it - are more necessary than ever,
if the world is to avoid the barbarism toward which capitalism is
hurling humanity.
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Subject
/ Capitalism -- Russia -- History
/ History
/ Russia
/ Russia -- Economic conditions
/ Social change -- Russia -- History
/ Social change -- Soviet Union -- History
/ Socialism -- Soviet Union -- History
/ Soviet Union -- Economic conditions
/ Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991
/ Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Influence
ISBN
1583676023, 9781583676028, 1583676015, 9781583676011
