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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827352103321

Autore

Varga Eugen <1879-1964, >

Titolo

Selected political and economic writings : from the Hungarian Revolution to the Orthodox economic theory in the USSR / / Eugen Varga ; edited and translated by André Mommen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-43219-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 1,180 pages)

Collana

Historical materialism book series ; ; Volume 225

Disciplina

330.023

Soggetti

Economists - Germany (East)

Marxian economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Born in 1879, Eugen Varga would become the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union - 'Stalin's economist'. This volume contains a wide and representative selection of his works, dating from his entry into the Hungarian Communist Party in 1919 through to his criticisms of John Maynard Keynes in the 1950s. It includes the entire text of his Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship, according to Lenin probably the best work on the collapse of the revolutionary government in Hungary. A detailed critical introduction by Varga's biographer, André Mommen, supplies valuable background detail on the circumstances of Varga's work, contextualising it in relation to political events and the development of orthodox economic theory in the USSR"--