Socialism in Russia

NODARI A. SIMONIA is Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Russia and is the author of a number of books, including Synthesis of Traditional and Modern in the Evolution of Third World Societies (Greenwood, 1992).

• A Bid For Socialism Russia as the Secondary Model of Capitalism The Concept of "Secondary Model" Specificity of the Secondary Model in Russia A Feature of Bourgeois Evolution Russian Imperialism The Problem of The Transitional Period State Capitalism--the Linchpin of the Transitional Period Small-Commodity Producers Wedded to State Capitalism The State and Private Enterprise Capitalism Administrative Decentralization and Economic Centralization in the Public Sector The "Passage to Socialism": The Stalin Model Stalin's Interpretation of NEP Stalin on Cooperatives The Problem of "Socialist Accumulation" The Dismantling of NEP: Stalin's Collectivization Drive First Strike at the Countryside Mounting Struggle in Leadership Falling Out With "Bukharinists" Total Collectivization "Dizzy With Success" First Upshot of Collectivization Mechanism of Extra-Economic Product Expropriation The Dismantling of NEP: Stalin's Industrialization Drive Two Types of Industrialization The Ejection of the Private Sector Nationalized Sector Transformed Crash Industrialization Consolidation of the Administrative-Command Mechanism Did Stalin Create the Basis of Socialism? Technical Intellectuals The Level of Physical Labor Force Economic Functions of Terror Planirovanie and Planomernost' Equated "Transition to Communism"