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Political Economy of Socialism & Communism

Suppressed or difficult to find articles, books, discussions, etc., on various
topics, issues and questions in Marxist socialist political economy (economics).

      We intend the core topic of the materials available on this page to be about the political economy of genuine socialism and genuine communism. However, be forewarned that we are also posting materials here which are only called the political economy of socialism, and which in reality are often more like the political economy of state capitalism, “market socialism”, or other revisionist conceptions of “socialism”. This is especially true for works published in the Soviet Union from the Khrushchev era on and works on political economy published in China after the death of Mao. But it is generally also true for Western academics who often falsely imagine that they are talking about “socialism”, or “socialism as it actually exists”, etc.

      [More complete intro to be added later.]

      If you know of other documents or items which should be made available here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net

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Introductions to the Political Economy of Socialism and Communism:

• Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook, edited with a Foreward and Afterward by Raymond Lotta, (NY: Banner Press, 1994), 404 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,505 KB]

General Socialist Economic Theory [From various “Left” points of view]:

• [Book:] Socialist Economics, by G. D. H. Cole, (Originally published in 1950; this re-publication by Routledge, 2011, as Vol. 10 of Cole’s Selected Works), 243 pages.   Epub format   [195 KB]
• [Book:] On Economic Theory and Socialism: Collected Papers, by Maurice Dobb, (NY: International, 1955), 299 pages. Seventeen articles on both the political economy of socialism and of capitalism.   Searchable PDF format   [14,055 KB]
• [Book:] Welfare Economics and the Economics of Socialism, by Maurice Dobb, (Cambridge University Press, 1969), 289 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,352 KB]
• [Book:] The Development of Socialist Economic Thought, by Maurice Dobb, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2008), 160 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [480 KB]
• [Book:] The Socialist Economy: Theory and Practice, by Tom Bottomore, (England: Harvestor Wheatsheaf, 1990), 158 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
• [More to be added....]

The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism [From various “Left” points of view]:

• [Book:] Economic Calculation and Forms of Property: An Essay on the Transition between Capitalism and Socialism, by Charles Bettelheim, English translation, (NY/London: MR Press, 1975 / Marx to Mao Digital Reprint 2016), 210 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [995 KB]
• [Book:] What Is The Transition Period?, by V. Kashin & N. Cherkasov, (Moscow: Progress, 1987), 176 pages. (Note that this book was written in the late state-capitalist period of the Soviet Union, and is therefore of dubious reliability.)   Searchable PDF format   [8,496 KB]

Socialist Planning [From various “Left” points of view]:

• “Some Lessons on Planning for the Twenty-First Century from the World’s First Socialist Economy”, by Elena Veduta, Monthly Review, Vol. 74, #5, October 2022, 16 pages. A somewhat jumbled and confused “history” of socialist planning in the Soviet Union, focusing excessively on technological questions such as computers, cybernetics, AI, and such.   Searchable PDF format   [571 KB]

Socialist Economics in Maoist China:

• Pre-Cultural Revolution Era (1949—1965):
  • [Book:] The Socialist Transformation of the National Economy in China, China Knowledge Series, by Hsueh Mu-chiao, Su Hsing and Lin Tse-li, (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1960), 298 pages. A description of the basic socialization of the Chinese economy during the 1950s. (Of course, this does not include information about the further enhancement and development of Chinese socialism during later years, especially as a result of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.)   Searchable PDF format   [13,193 KB]
  • [Book:] A Critique of Soviet Economics, by Mao Tsetung, including Mao’s “Critique of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR”, (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1977), 156 pages. Note that this “standard” English language version of Mao’s commentary about Soviet economics is by no means complete! In particular, many of Mao’s comments to comrades about Soviet economics are not included along with the notes he made while reading the Soviet textbook. This explains why this English language book (and the Spanish translation of it below) are so much shorter than even the “Short” Chinese language edition also available below. Questions have also been raised about the accuracy of the translations of Mao’s comments in some places. This English book is included in Volume VIII of Mao’s Selected Works, and is also available in HTML format on the Marx2Mao.com website at: http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/CSE58.html and on the Marxist Internet Archive at: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_64.htm
    [Spanish edition:] “Commentarios sobre el Manual de Economía Política Soviético y sobre el Libro Problemas Económicos del Socialismo en la URSS de José Stalin”, (Lima, Peru: n.d.), 170 pages.   PDF format   [6,180 KB]
    [Original Chinese edition:] “Short Version” [i.e., with all of Mao’s comments, but much shorter extracts from the full Soviet texts that Mao is criticizing], edited by Deng Liqun based on his extensive conversations with Mao, 619 pages. While this is called the “Short” Chinese version, it includes a whole lot of Mao’s comments about Soviet political economy that are not included in the MR English volume.   Searchable PDF format   [10,960 KB]
    [Edited Simplified Chinese edition:] Mao Zedong’s Talk on Reading the Soviet Political Economy Textbook, Nov. 9-10, 1958, 162 pages. [This is probably the best version for those who read Chinese to at least begin with in studying Mao’s comments on the political economy of the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. It is a recently edited edition by a friend of this website, of the “Simplified Version” created on behalf of Deng Liqun long before, who himself prepared the “Original Chinese edition” listed above. In this book Mao’s own comments are in bold type, while the ordinary text presents the views of the Soviet textbook or Stalin. Although not yet available in English translation, it is possible to use machine translation (such as from Google) to get some idea of the important material in this volume.]   Microsoft Word (.docx) format   [207 KB];   Searchable PDF format   [711 KB]
  • [Book:] Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China, English translation ed. by Stephen Andors, (M.E.Sharpe: 1976), 450 pages. [Original Chinese book published in the spring of 1966, just before the initial outbreak of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.]   Searchable PDF format   [18,368 KB]
  • [Book:] Chinese Economic Statistics in the Maoist Era, 1949-1965, ed. by Nai-Ruenn Chen, (London/NY: Routledge, 1967), 573 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [12,780 KB]
• Cultural Revolution Era (1966—1976):
  • “Capitalism Will Surely Perish, Socialism Will Surely Prosper”, by Yin Hang, (Peking: People’s Daily, April 20, 1971), English translation in Chinese Economic Studies, Vol VI, No. 1, (Fall 1972), 13 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [888 KB]
  • [Book:] An Economic History of the Major Capitalist Countries: A Chinese View, by Kang Fan, et al., 1973. Translated into English by Uldis Kruze (1992), 334 pages.   Searchable PDF format (large file)   [22,126 KB];   Searchable PDF format (smaller file), (requires Adobe Acrobat reader version 9.0 or later),   [7,569 KB]
  • [Book:] The Political Economy of Socialism, a major project of the Communist Party of China during the Maoist/Socialist period (following a similar earlier effort in the Soviet Union under Stalin), consisting of several draft versions of what was intended to eventually become a definitive exposition of socialist political economy in general as well as under Chinese circumstances. “Political Economy of Socialism was seen as an ongoing work. The process of writing and circulating and improving drafts was a fertile one. Between 1972 and 1976, four drafts of the book were published, each a significant marker of a deeper theoretical grasp and each implicitly setting an agenda for further research. In tracking the changes in the successive drafts of the text, it becomes apparent that the Maoists were creatively tackling many of the most vexing issues of socialist political economy—from the character of the socialist labor process, to the status of economic laws under socialism, to the relationship between the forces of production and the relations of production under socialism.” —Raymond Lotta, Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook (1994), p. xl.
    • 1972年写出“征求意见稿”, First Version (September 1972): “Draft for Solicitation of Comments”.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [409 pages; 13,902 KB]
    • 1973年写出“未定稿”, Second Version (July 1973): “Unfinalized Draft”.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [406 pages; 13,812 KB]
    • 1975年写出“未定稿第二版”, Third Version (June 1975): “Unfinalized Second Edition”.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [441 pages; 14,936 KB]
    • 1976年9月写出“未定稿第二版讨论稿”, Fourth Version (September 1976): “Unfinished Second Edition Discussion Draft”.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format (Large file)   [538 pages; 19,847 KB];   Chinese: Searchable PDF format (Smaller file)   [551 pages; 2,537 KB]
    • Fifth Version (October 1976): “... never saw the light of day; it was seized off the printing presses immediately after the October 1976 rightist coup.” —Raymond Lotta, ibid. Though probably only a bit different than the Fourth Version which came out shortly before it, this was still likely one of the very most interesting and valuable texts suppressed by the capitalist roaders after their seizure of power. Some idea of its point of view (as well as of earlier drafts) can be obtained from studying the many revisionist criticisms of the volume which were published after the coup. (See the next item for some references to those criticisms.)
    • “A Theory of Transitional Society and Mao Zedong and the Shanghai School”, by Peer Moller Christensen & Jorgen Delman, originally published in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 13:2, April-June 1981, pp. 2-15. (But only posted on the Internet in 2019.) This very interesting paper discusses (among other things) the issue of how it is that capitalism can possibly grow out of socialism, and the thinking in the various drafts of the Political Economy of Socialism text about this. This is a quite useful article to read in connection with the study of the drafts of the Shanghai text, which it discusses extensively.   English: Searchable PDF format   [15 pages; 2,064 KB]
  • [Books:] The Three-Part Nankai Volumes on Political Economy, published at Nankai University in Tianjin, probably in 1976. We believe these are quite similar in theoretical and political outlook to the Shanghai volume The Political Economy of Socialism listed above.
    • “Preface: Very Rough Google Translation into English”, just enough to give a slight taste of what these volumes are about, 16 pages.   English: Searchable PDF format   [145 KB]
    • Political Economy Textbook — Nankai Edition — Capitalism Part, 404 pages.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [13,216 KB]
    • Political Economy Textbook — Nankai Edition — Imperialism Part, 172 pages.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [6,057 KB]
    • Political Economy Textbook — Nankai Edition — Socialism Part, 458 pages.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [15,304 KB]
  • [Book:] Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known in the U.S. as the “Shanghai Textbook”. This book was originally published in Chinese in Shanghai in 1974 as a popularization of the Shanghai volume Political Economy of Socialism which is more properly termed the “Shanghai Textbook” (see above). It was part of the Youth Self-Education Series designed for individual or group study. The first half of the book is about the political economy of capitalism and capitalist-imperialism. Chapter 11 is about Soviet social-imperialism [socialism in name, imperialism in fact]. And the rest of the book is about the political economy of socialism. This is the 1977 translation of the entire volume, as edited by George Wang, 541 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [29,335 KB]
    We now also have available the second edition of this volume in Chinese, 《政治经济学基础知识》, (Shanghai: 1975). This is a reprint edition from February 2022, 349 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,131 KB]
    The portions of this volume on the political economy of socialism were later issued in a revised translation edited by Raymond Lotta (with a Foreward and Afterword) under the title “Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook” (NY: Banner Press, 1994), 404 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,505 KB]
  • “On the Management of Socialist Enterprises”, by Kung Hsiao-wen, et al., original Chinese edition, 1974, 54 pages. To their great credit, the articles in this book give a very strong emphasis to the importance of using the mass line (the method of “from the masses, to the masses”) in the management of production.   Chinese: PDF format   [1,904 KB]
    This entire small book was translated into English and reprinted as an issue of Chinese Economic Studies, Vol. IX, No. 1, Fall 1975, 83 pages.   English: Searchable PDF format   [1,344 KB]
  • “The Taching Oilfield: A Maoist Model for Economic Development”, by Leslie W. Chan, (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1974), 36 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,433 KB]
  • “Why China Has No Inflation”, by Peng Kuang-hsi, (Peking: FLP: 1976), 72 pages.   PDF format   [5,654 KB];   also available in HTML format at: https://www.massline.org/PolitEcon/China/Inflation-pamphlet.htm
  • [Book:] “马克思恩格斯列宁毛主席 关于社会主义政治经济学 的部分论述”   [“Marx-Engels-Lenin-Chairman Mao — On Socialist Political Economy”], by the Political Economy Teaching and Research Group, [Department of Political Economy, Fudan University, March 1976], 401 pages. We understand that this book is a good reference source while studying the The Political Economy of Socialism textbook listed above. In particular the theory of “bourgeois right and factors in the socialist stage” and the “bourgeoisie in the party” had basically matured by the time this volume was written.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [20,904 KB]
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• More Recent Works by Maoists, or by those Sympathetic to Maoist Political Economy:
  • [Book:] In Praise of Maoist Economic Planning: Living Standards and Economic Development in Sichuan since 1931, by Chris Bramall, (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), 399 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [13,357 KB]
  • [More to be added....]

Socialist Economics in the Soviet Union:

• Socialist Era (1917—c. 1956):
  • “Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, by V. I. Lenin, (Oct. 30, 1919), (Peking: FLP, 1975), 26 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [628 KB]
  • [Book:]   The Economic Organization of War Communism, 1918-1921, by Silvana Malle, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985), 560 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [7,234 KB]
  • [Book:] Lenin’s Plan of Building Socialism in the USSR, by D. Kukin, (Moscow: Progress, 1974), 208 pages. [Although about Lenin and the early days of the USSR, note that this book was written in the revisionist era.]   Searchable PDF format   [2,673 KB]
  • [Book:] USSR — State Industry During the Transition Period, by Y. Avdakov and V. Borodin, (Moscow: Progress, 1977), 302 pages. [Like some of the other works in this section, although this is about the 1917-1932 period, the reader should take note that it was written in the revisionist era.] Mediocre scan, though quite legible.   Searchable PDF format   [Very large file: 77,710 KB]
  • [Book:]   An Outline of Political Economy: Political Economy and Soviet Economics, by I. Lapidus and K. Ostrovityanov, (London: Martin Lawrence, 1929), 562 pages. A very interesting book which raises many challenging issues, such as whether net economic production by socialist enterprises in the Soviet Union should be termed “surplus value” or something else such as “surplus production”.   Searchable PDF format   [8,372 KB]
  • “Completion of the Reconstruction of the Entire National Economy”, speech by G. K. Orjonikidze, the People’s Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR at the Seventeenth Congress of the CPSU (1934), (NY: International Publishers, n.d. [but probably 1934]), 48 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,587 KB]
  • “Political Economy in the Soviet Union”, the full text of an important unsigned article (written by A.Leontyev) which provoked wide discussion and speculation in the American press, (NY: International, 1944), 52 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,760 KB]
  • [Book:] “Industry in the U.S.S.R.”, by E. Lokshin, (Moscow: FLPH, 1948), 176 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [9,854 KB]
  • “Five Conversations with Soviet Economists, 1941-1952”, by J. V. Stalin, Revolutionary Democracy magazine, September 1998, online in HTML format at: https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv4n2/5convers.htm
    • [Accompanying historical summary:] “Stalin and the Making of the Political Economy of Socialism”, by Vijay Singh, ibid., online at: https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv4n2/polecon.htm
  • “Conversations With Stalin On Questions of Political Economy”, an alternative version of the item above from the Soviet archives, and edited with an introduction by the bourgeois commentator Ethan Pollock for the Wilson Center. (Wilson Center, Cold War International History Project, Paper #33, July 2001, 56 pages.) It seems that this version (and translation) is probably more reliable and more complete than the one above. However, even this translation was apparently not done by people entirely familiar with standard Marxist-Leninist idioms in English; thus the reference to Kautsky’s theory of “ultra-imperialism” is given as “high imperialism” in this translation. However, the translation of this term in the version on revolutionarydemocracy.org is even worse: It refers to Kautsky’s theory of “super capitalism” rather than the correct translation as “ultra-imperialism”.   Searchable PDF format   [183 KB]
  • “Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.”, by J. V. Stalin (1952), (Peking: FLP, 1972), 114 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [562 KB]
    Commentary on this work from various sources:
    • Mao’s commentary: In the China Political Economy section above.
    • “On Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems’ [Part One]”, by the Irish Communist Organisation, 1969, 44 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,420 KB]
  • [Book:]   Political Economy, a formal Soviet textbook of the subject, covering pre-capitalist, capitalist, capitalist-imperialist, and socialist political economy, issued by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. This is the English translation of the second revised and enlarged Russian edition, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1957 [Orig. Russian edition 1954]), 623 pages. (We believe it was a Chinese translation of this same 1954 Russian textbook that Mao critiqued in his famous writings.)   Searchable PDF format   [8,483 KB];   Epub format   [1,316 pages; 937 KB]
  • “Factory Management and Wages in the USSR”, by Alexander Birman, (London: Soviet Weekly pamphlet, 1958), 64 pages. (This pamphlet, which is a collection of short articles written during the previous two years, still reflects some of the factory organization and role of the workers which prevailed in the late socialist era.)   Searchable PDF format   [2,802 KB]
• Revisionist/State Capitalist & Social-Imperialist Era (c. 1956—1991):
  • [Book:] Socialism: Questions of Theory, by R. Kosolapov, (Moscow: Progress, 1979), 546 pages. (Large as it is, this is a somewhat abridged translation of the Russian edition of 1975.) This is a broad and general book about the theory of socialism, including political issues, economic issues, and even some philosophical issues, as understood in the Soviet Union during the mid-1970s.   Searchable PDF format   [8,720 KB]
  • [Book:] Political Economy: Socialism, by G. A. Kozlov, et al., (Moscow: Progress, 1977), 497 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [15,130 KB]
  • [Book:] Socialist Society: Scientific Principles of Development, by G. Glezerman, (Moscow: Progress, 1971), 276 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,593 KB]
  • [Book:] Formation of the Socialist Economic System, by Vsevolod Kulikov, (Moscow: Progress, 1988), 243 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [10,959 KB]
  • [Books:] Planning a Socialist Economy, 2 Volumes, edited by L. Ya. Berri, and written by members of the “Department of Organization and Planning of the Soviet Economy in the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University, in collaboration with a number of economists from other institutions”, (Moscow: Progress, English 1977 [Original Russian edition 1973]).
    • Volume 1, 284 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,679 KB]
    • Volume 2, 305 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,795 KB]
  • [Books:] Aims and Methods of Soviet Planning, by Mikhail Bor, (NY: International, 1967), 256 pages. (Missing covers and title page.)   Searchable PDF format   [6,352 KB]  
  • [Books:] Soviet Planning Today: Proposals for an Optimally Functioning Economic System, by Michael Ellman, (Combridge University Press, 1972), 237 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,497 KB]  
  • [Book:] Soviet Planning: Principles and Techniques, by A. I. Anchishkin, et al., (Moscow: Progress, 1972, First Printing), 208 pages. Has a small amount of underlining; our apologies.   Searchable PDF format   [2,698 KB]
  • [Book:] Centralised Planning of the Economy, by Yu. M. Shvyrkov, (Moscow: Progress, 1980 [Russian ed. 1978]), 260 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [7,526 KB]
  • [Book:] An ABC of Planning [Fundamentals of the Theory and Methodology of Economic Planning], by E. Cherevik and Y. Shvyrkov, (Moscow: Progress, 1982), 253 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,741 KB]
  • [Book:] Socialism and Wealth, by Y. Lazutkin, (Moscow: Progress, 1974), 229 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,076 KB]
  • [Book:] Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR, by Aron Katsenelinboigen, (NY: Pergamen, 1980), 220 pages. A central focus of this book is the struggle between mathematical and non-mathematical economists in the Soviet Union.   Searchable PDF format   [5,703 KB]
  • [Book:] The Economic Substantiation of the Theory of Socialism, by Vitaly Vygodsky, (Moscow: Progress, 1981), 282 pages. (Our apologies for the dark shadow gutter between pages.)   Searchable PDF format   [12,512 KB]
  • “Era of Soviet Stagnation”, also called the Brezhnev Stagnation, Wikipedia Entry [As of 10/13/2022], 12 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [723 KB]
  • [Book:] Essays in Political Economy: Socialism and the Socialist Orientation, by Yuri Popov, (Moscow: Progress, 1985), 266 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [11,672 KB]
  • [Book:] Fundamentals of Scientific Management of Socialist Economy, no author(s) specified, (Moscow: Progress, 1989), 210 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [9,984 KB]
  • [More to be added...]
• The Attempts to Use Endless “Reforms” to Transform Soviet-style State-Capitalism into “Market Socialism” (Mid-1960s—Mid-1980s):
  • “New Methods of Economic Management in the USSR”, by A. Kosygin, L. Brezhnev, and the Central Committee of the CPSU, from the Plenary Meeting of the CC, Sept. 27-29, 1965, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1965), 132 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,684 KB]
  • “Soviet Economic Reform and Its Critics”, by V. Smolyansky, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, n.d. [but either late 1965 or 1966]), 64 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [672 KB]
  • “1965 Soviet Economic Reform”, Wikipedia Entry [As of 01/01/2022], 17 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [674 KB]
  • “Socialist Planning: Some Problems”, by Maurice Dobb, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1970), 70 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,427 KB]
  • [Book:] Econometry, the Market and Planning, by V. Dyachenko, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1971), 132 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,430 KB]
  • [Book:] Planning Problems in the USSR: The Contribution of Mathematical Economics to their Solution, 1960-1971, by Michael Ellman, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1973), 247 pages. Ellman argues that though more mathematics, such as improved linear programming, helped somewhat, it didn’t resolve the bigger problems involved in Soviet planning. (Unfortunately, there are passages in this scan which are excessively light, especially in some of the footnotes at the bottom of the pages, and are difficult to read. Our apologies.)   Searchable PDF format   [15,053 KB]
  • [Book:] Soviet Economic Reform: Progress and Problems, by Nikolai Fedoryenko, Tigran Khachaturov, Alexei Rumyantsev, Anatoly Yefimov, et al., (Moscow: Progress, 1972), 260 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [12,463 KB]
  • [Book:] Economic Methods and the Effectiveness of Production, by E. G. Liberman, (Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1973), [originally published in Russian in 1970], 240 pages. This is the notorious volume by a leading early capitalist-roader economist in the Soviet Union in the effort to further transform their system of state capitalism according to the principles of bourgeois economics (though dressed up in “socialist” terminology). The word ‘profit’ (or profitability, etc.) appears 180 times in this book!   Searchable PDF format   [7,227 KB]
  • “Raising the Efficiency of Socialist Economic Management”, by Boris Gubin, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1973), 116 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,744 KB]
  • “1973 Soviet Economic Reform”, Wikipedia Entry [As of 10/13/2022], 3 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [214 KB]
  • “Guidelines for the Development of the National Economy of the USSR for 1976-1980”, by A. N. Kosygin, presented at the 25th Congress of the CPSU, March 1, 1976, pamplet edition (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1976), 84 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,815 KB]
  • “1979 Soviet Economic Reform”, Wikipedia Entry [As of 10/13/2022], 3 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [264 KB]
  • [Book:] Socialist Economic Development and Reforms, by J. Wilczynski, (Palgrave Macmillan, 1972), 365 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [14,732 KB]
  • [Book:] Profit, Risk and Incentives Under Socialist Economic Planning, by J. Wilczynski, (Palgrave Macmillan, 1973), 239 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [22,327 KB]
  • [Book:] Economic Reforms in the Socialist World, ed. by Stanislaw Gomulka, Yong-chool Ha & Cae-one Kim, (England: Macmillan, 1989), 249 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
  • [Book:] Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, by Hubert Gabrisch, (Routledge, 1989), 470 pages.   Epub format   [804 KB]
  • [Book:] Economic Reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Since the 1960s, by Jan Adam, (Palgrave Macmillan, 1989), 279 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
  • [Book:] Economic Thought and Economic Reform in the Soviet Union, by Pekka Sutela, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), 208 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
  • [Book:] The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The role of local party organs in economic management, by Peter Rutland, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993), 320 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,993 KB]
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• The Gorbachev Era: Perestroika, the Failed Attempt to Switch Over to Western-style Monopoly Capitalism, and the Complete Collapse of the USSR (Mid-1980s—1991):
  • [Book:] Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World, by Mikhail Gorbachev, (NY: Harper & Row, 1987), 262 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,973 KB]
  • [Book:] Conversations With Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism, by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zedek Mlynar, (NY: Columbia University Press, 2002), 255 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
  • [Book:] Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, by Paul R. Gregory, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990), 194 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,202 KB]
  • [Book:] Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation, by Peter J. Boettke, (NY/London: Routledge, 1993), 208 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [926 KB]
  • [Book:] Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika In Perspective, by Archie Brown, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), 371 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
  • [Book:] The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders’ History, ed. by Michael Ellman & Vladimir Kontorovich, (1998/2015), 764 pages.   Epub format   [2,623 KB]
  • [Book:] The Economics of Soviet Break-up, by Bert Van Selm, (London/NY: Routledge, 1997), 149 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
  • [More to be added...]

Socialist Economics in Countries in the Soviet Bloc:

• General:
  • [Book:] Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Prospects for the 1980s, a NATO Colloquium held in Brussels in April 1980, (Pergamon, 1980), 307 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,203 KB]
• German Democratic Republic [East Germany]:
  • [To be added...]
• Romania:
  • [Book:] The Political Economy of Romanian Socialism, by William E. Crowther, (NY: Praeger, 1988), 214 pages. (Some underlining; our apologies.)   Searchable Deja View format (.djvu)   [2,628 KB]
• Cuba:
  • [Book:] Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: Socialist Political Economy and Economic Management in Cuba, 1959-1965, by Helen Yaffe, Ph.D. Thesis, London School of Economics, n.d. (but from internal evidence probably 2006), 449 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [14,497 KB]

Miscellaneous Academic Works (Usually Bourgeois and/or Focused on the Soviet Union in its Capitalist Era):

• [Book:] The Socialist System — The Political Economy of Socialism, by János Kornai, (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1992), 673 pages.   [Removed for copyright reasons.]
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