1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148692303321

Autore

Clarkson Stephen

Titolo

The Soviet Theory of Development : India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship / / Stephen Clarkson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]

©1978

ISBN

1-4426-5481-3

1-4426-5290-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Collana

Centre for Russians and East European Studies

Disciplina

338.9/001

Soggetti

Marxian economics

India Economic policy

Developing countries Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- State capitalism -- Foreign aid and trade -- Agriculture -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship. But they have rarely been analysed in their own terms and for what they are - the application of marxist-leninist theory by Soviet scholars to the problems of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Based on research in Paris, New York, the Soviet Union, and India, this book provides a long needed insight into how Soviet thinkers understand such crucial problems in development as planning in mixed economies, foreign aid from socialist and capitalist donors, agrarian reform, and the class struggle.A concerned observer of Soviet development theory for some fifteen years, Stephen Clarkson is neither hostile nor uncritical. He argues that western students and third world policy-makers alike have a good deal to learn from marxist-leninist political economy because it presents an integrated approach to understanding the dilemmas of underdevelopment. Although Soviet scholarship benefits from some



important theoretical advantages, it also suffers, in Clarkson's view, from severe intellectual handicaps. The book examines the Soviet analysis of third world development as a whole, drawing particularly on the most extensive and sophisticated school of interpretation, the Russian writings on India.This book makes an important contribution to Soviet and third world studies by offering the reader a guide to the publications on development, a complex and evolving aspect of the Soviet view of the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785698403321

Autore

Sessions William Lad

Titolo

Honor for us [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical analysis, interpretation and defense / / William Lad Sessions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97765-2

9786612977657

1-4411-7496-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

179.9

Soggetti

Honor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-205) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Concepts of honor -- pt. 2. Honor's reach -- pt. 3. Honor's future.

Sommario/riassunto

Honor For Us is the first contemporary philosophical inquiry into the concept of honor.  It is unique not only in its analysis of six distinct concepts of honor, which includes an investigation into the place of honor in religious thought and ethics, but also in its interpretation of honor's prevalence in our own culture. Many would like to discard honor altogether as "obsolete", but Sessions contends that the concept of honor is poorly understood, standing sorely in need of clarification.  He argues that the notion of honor remains viable in the face of powerful criticism, and that it has imp