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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814234803321

Autore

Post Ken <1935->

Titolo

Socialism and underdevelopment . Volume 106 / / Ken Post and Phil Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxfordshire, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

©1989

ISBN

1-136-85601-3

0-203-83537-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Development

Disciplina

335.43/091724

Soggetti

Communism - Developing countries

Communism

Economic development

Developing countries Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; SERIES EDITORS'' PREFACE; FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 Socialism and underdevelopment; 2 The seizure of power; 3 State socialist accumulation: the resource-constrained economy; 4 The politics of state socialist societies; 5 Towards a balance sheet; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, first published in 1989, Ken Post and Phil Wright provide a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. Pointing out that all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century have occurred in underdeveloped peripheral capitalist countries, they focus on the relationship between socialism and underdevelopment. They bring together the insights of both development theory and the political economy of socialism, and draw upon their direct experience of the state socialist societies as diverse as North Korea, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union.