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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789995503321

Autore

Mommen Andre

Titolo

Stalin's economist : the economic contributions of Jeno Varga / / Andre Mommen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-79345-3

1-283-12694-X

9786613126948

1-136-79346-1

0-203-82634-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 127

Disciplina

335.43092

B

Soggetti

Economists - Soviet Union

Soviet Union Economic policy 1917-1928

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

The making of a Marxist -- The making of a Bolshevik -- Economist of the Comintern (1920-8) -- Between Bukharin and Stalin (1928-30) -- The agrarian question -- In Berlin (1924-7) -- The general crisis of capitalism -- A depression of a special kind -- Surviving the Stalinist purges -- Two world systems -- Reparation payments and Marshall Plan (1941-7) -- The Varga controversy -- Adviser to Rákosi -- Writing a textbook -- Problems of monopoly capitalism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jen?) 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. During the Hungarian Councils' Republic of 1919 Varga was one of those chiefly responsible for transforming the economy into one big industrial and agrarian firm under state authority. After the fall of the revolutionary regime that year, Varga joined the Hungarian Communist Party, soon after which, he would become one of the Comintern's leading economists,