Testing Early Soviet Economic Alternatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5120174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holland Hunter (Haverford College), Janusz M Szyrmer, Janusz Szyrmer (California University of Pennsylvania) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-267 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2500201 |
| OpenAlex | W2032770692 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper focuses on four issues concerning Soviet economic prospects debated in the 1920s. The first had been posed by Lenin in the summer of 1917 in Gosudarstvo i revoliutsiia, where he explained confidently" ... that expropriation of the capitalists will inevitably result in the enormous development of the productive forces of human society. But how rapidly this development will proceed ... we do not and cannot know." In mid-September he added the well-known warning:The result of the revolution has been that the political system of Russia has in a few months caught up with that of the advanced countries. But that is not enough. The war is inexorable: it puts the alternative with ruthless severity: either perish or overtake and outstrip the advanced countries economically as well
Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Expropriation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |