Preobrazhensky Papers, Volume 2

Richard B. Day, Ph.D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge, 1973); a translation of Preobrazhensky’s The Decline of Capitalism (M.E. Sharpe, 1985); and Volume I of The Preobrazhensky Papers (Brill, 2014) with Mikhail M. Gorinov.Mikhail Gorinov, Ph.D., is an historian of political struggles within the Russian Communist Party during the 1920s. He is co-editor of Preobrazhensky’s works in Russian and has published several works on Preobrazhensky’s political life, co-edited The History of Russia: The Twentieth Century (Heron Press, 1996), and contributed to The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (University of Illinois Press, 2000).Sergei Tsakunov, Ph.D., is an economist specialising in Russian economic theory during the 1920s. He is co-editor of Preobrazhensky’s works in Russian and author of In the Labyrinth of Doctrine (Rossiya Molodaya, 1994). He has published chapters on NEP in several Russian journals and books, including Volume 1 of Soviet Society (Rosiiskii gos. gumanitarnyi universitet, 1997), and History of the Motherland (Politizdat Moskva, 1991).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsForeword to the First EditionPart 1 [Socialist and Communist Conceptions of Socialism]Introduction to Part 1: Socialist and Communist Conceptions of Socialism[1] The Great Utopians1 Saint-Simon2 Fourier3 Étienne Cabet4 Robert Owen[2] The Communists1 August Blanqui2 The Parisian Dictatorship3 Marx and Engels[3] French Syndicalism1 Against the State2 Against Parliamentarism3 The Way beyond Capitalism. The General Strike4 Preparing for a New Society within the Old One5 The Period of Transition to Communism6 The Future Society7 Anti-imperialism and Anti-militarism8 Syndicalism, Revisionism and Marxism9 The Syndicalists and BolshevismPart 2 [Foundations of a Theory of the Soviet Economy]4 On the Method of Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy1 The Marxist Method of Political Economy2 Political Economy and Social Technology3 The Method of Studying the Commodity-Socialist System of Economy5 The Law of Primitive Socialist Accumulation1 Primitive Capitalist and Primitive Socialist Accumulation2 The Struggle between Two Laws6 The Law of Value in the Soviet Economy1 General Observations2 The Law of Value and Monopoly Capitalism3 The Law of Value with Socialisation of Industry in a Peasant Country4 The Commodity, the Market and Prices5 Surplus Value, Surplus Product, and Wages6 The Category of Profit in the State Economy7 The Category of Rent8 Interest and the Credit System9 CooperationAppendix 1: Foreword to the Second EditionAppendix 2: Once Again on Socialist AccumulationAppendix 3: Reply to Comrades Karev and KapitonovAppendix 4: Debate on the Report of Comrade Preobrazhensky on ‘The Law of Value in the Soviet Economy’Appendix 5: Economic Notes. On the Benefits of a Theoretical Study of the Soviet EconomyAppendix 6: Declaration of E.A. Preobrazhensky to the Presidium of the XV Conference of the All-Union Communist Party(B)Biographical IndexReferencesIndex

“The Preobrazhensky Papers aim to restore the reputation of Preobrazhensky as a Marxist of considerable interest and importance.”—Bill Jefferies, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books