Stalin's Economist: The Economic Contributions of Jenö Varga

ISBN-13: 9780415575164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 282 str.

Andre Mommen

Opis

In this study Mommen reveals how Stalin's view on international capitalism and inter-imperialist rivalries was profoundly influenced by debates in the Comintern and by Varga's concept of the general crisis of capitalism. Though Stalin appreciated Varga's cleverness, he never trusted him when making his strategic foreign policy decisions. This was clearly demonstrated in August 1939 with Stalin's pact with Hitler, and in 1947, with his refusal to participate in Marshall's European Recovery Plan.This book should be of interest to a wide variety of students and researchers, including those concentrating on the history of economic thought, Soviet studies, international relations, and European and Cold War history.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Making of a Marxist  2. The Making of a Bolshevik  3. Economist of the Comintern (1920-8)  4. Between Bukharin and Stalin (1928-30)  5. The Agrarian Question  6. In Berlin (1924-7)  7. The General Crisis of Capitalism  8. A Depression of a Special Kind  9. Surviving the Stalinist Purges  10. Two World Systems  11. Reparation Payments and Marshall Plan (1941-7)  12. The Varga Controversy  13. Adviser to Rákosi  14. Writing a Textbook  15. Problems of Monopoly Capitalism Epilogue

O autorze

André Mommen obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University Brussels, Belgium, where he went on to lecture before moving to the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.