| Description |
1 online resource (iv, 254 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge library editions : Early western responses to Soviet Russia ; Volume 6 |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; The Pathos Of Revolution; The Proletarian Way Of Life; The Scarcity; Government Palaces and Hovels; The Appearance of the Ruling Class; The Bottom Dogs; Incomes-Levelling and Variations; Art and Clubs; Conjugating in the Future Tense; The Contest between Sacrifice and Patience; The Basis Of The Experiment; Annual Increase of Population 3ư Millions; Natural Riches and Poverty; Illiteracy; The Civil War; -Plus Bolshevism; The High Commands Of Bolshevism |
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State Capitalism and Private EnterpriseThe Collapse of War-Communism; Foreign Trade Monopoly; The Isolation of the Currency; Control of Credit; Control of Industry; Control of Prices; The Goal; The Five-Year Plan; Economic Directivity; Intentions and Realities; Investments of 78·4 Milliard Roubles; Increased Production and Price Reductions; Socialization; Still an Agrarian Nation!; Optimists, Ironists, and Politicians; Industry Under Bolshevism; The Heritage; Fantasias in Kilowatt Hours; Impediments; Socialization and Management; The Red Manager; The Specialist; Discipline in the Workshop |
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High Working CostsProfit as an Incentive; Socialistic Competition; Islets Of Capitalism; 424 Per Cent. Profit; The Significance of the Concession Policy; Prospects and Perils of Concessionaires; New Projects; The Worker Under Bolshevism; Economic Snapshots; The New Situation; Works Democracy under the Dictatorship; Settling Wages without the Right to Strike; The Trade Unions and the System; The Peasant Under Bolshevism; The New Land Law; Peasant Emancipation and Land Shortage; The Elevation of the Peasant; Discouraging the Peasants; The Campaign against the Kulaks |
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The Peasant and CollectivizationAgrarian Communism; Communal Cominterns -- Types of Collectivization; Giant Communes; The Reluctant Peasant and the Pressing State; Pioneering in the Steppes; The State as Grain Producer; The Result in Plan Figures; The Contractors; The Peasant as Worker in the Grain Factory; The Political Rule Of The Dictatorship; The Red Flag over the Kremlin; The New Right of Nationalities; The Goal of the Dictatorship; The Suppression of the Former People -- The New Educational Privileges of the Proletariat; The Party as Elite, Sects and Orders; Those who are Led |
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The Pressure of the Dictatorship and its ConsequencesThe Instruments of Dictatorship; Who-Whom?; The Old Faith And The New; The Campaign against the Old Churches; The Religion of the New World Order; The New Society; The Emancipation of Woman; The Emancipation of Children; The Russian and the Machine Age; The Change of Heart; The Interim Balance Sheet; The Collective Man; Epilogue; Spring 1930; Index |
| Summary |
"This book, originally published in English in 1930 is a vivid account of the life and problems of Russia in the first decades of the twentieth century. The typical features of existence in the proletarian state are discussed in connection with an exhaustive analysis of the whole experiment of Bolshevism and the developments of economic policy are clearly explained and discussed."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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"First published in German in 1929 under the title 'Experiment des Bolshchewismus'"--Title page verso |
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"First published in Great Britain in 1930 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd"--Title page verso |
| Subject |
Communism -- Soviet Union.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Communism
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125722
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Soviet Union -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125731
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| Subject |
Soviet Union
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1351618954 |
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9781351618953 |
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9781351618946 |
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1351618946 |
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9781315111407 |
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1315111403 |
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