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THE
RESTORATION OF CAPITALISM IN THE SOVIET UNION," By W.B.Bland, For the Communist
League (UK).
TABLE OF CONTENTS BY WHICH
TO CLICK TO SECTIONS; AND FOREWORD
Second Edition , 1995; First
published, Wembley 1980; See New Post-script also.
FOREWORD
This book is an analysis of the
economic system which was developed in the USSR after the "economic reforms"
of 1965-66 - an analysis made on the basis of a mass of evidence taken
almost exclusively from official Soviet economic journals.
Taking into account the virtual
abolition of centralised economic planing, the introduction of profit as
the regulator of production, the vesting of effective ownership and "hiring
and firing" rights in industrial management, and the inequitable distribution
of enterprise profit between managerial and shop floor personnel, the author
reached the conclusion - as the title indicates - that by the 1970s the
soviet economy had become essentially a restored capitalist system masquerading
under red flags which are no longer appropriate.
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The
Abolition of Centralised Economic Planning
2. Profit
as the Regulator of Production
3. The
"Socialist Market"
4. Payment
For Production Assets
5. Credit
and Interest
6. Ownership
of the Means of Production
7. The
New Soviet Capitalist
8. Freedom
to Hire and Fire
CHAPTERS
9-12:
9. The Primitive Accumulation of
Capital
10. The Sale of Labour Power
11. The Value of Labour Power
12. The Price of Labour Power
CHAPTERS
13-15
13. Managerial Salaries
14. "Price Control"
15. The Retention of Profit by
the Enterprise
CHAPTERS
16-18
16. "Economic Incentives"
17. "Socialist Profit"
18. The Distribution of "Socialist
Profit"
CHAPTERS
19-23
19. "Divide and Rule"
20. Anti-Semitism
21. Corporatism
22. The Social Services
23. Environmental Pollution
CHAPTERS
24-26
24. "Moral Stimuli"
25. Economic Coercion
26. National Discrimination
CHAPTERS
27-29
27. "The International Division
of Labour"
28. Investment "
29. Rationalisation and Redundancy
"
CHAPTERS
30-31
30. The Concentration and Centralisation
of Capital
31. Soviet Monopoly Capitalism
CHAPTERS
32-34
32. A "Superfluity of Capital"
33. The Exploitation of the Working
Class
34. The Market Problem
CHAPTERS
35-38
35. The Class Structure of Soviet
Society in the 1970s
36. The Role of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
37. The Character of the Soviet
State
38. Conclusion
NEW: POST-SCRIPT
UPDATES EVENTS TO THE LIQUIDATION
OF THE USSR
Appendices
1 and 2. Statistics relating to National Discrimination
Appendix
3. The "Leningrad Affair"
FOR FIRST CHAPTER ENTITLED: "INTRODUCTION
"
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