Stalin's Economist: The Economic Contributions of Jenö Varga

ISBN-13: 9781138807587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 282 str.

Andre Mommen

Opis

This text analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jeno) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on Stalin's foreign policy and through the Comintern on the international communist movement."

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.