Marx and Russia is a chronological account of the evolution of Marxist thought from the publication of Das Kapital in Russian translation to the suppression of independent ideological currents by Stalin at the end of the 1920s. The book demonstrates the progressive emergence of different schools of Marxist thinking in the revolutionary era in Russia.
Starting from Marx's own connections with Russian revolutionaries and scholars, James D. White examines the contributions of such figures as Sieber, Plekhanov, Lenin, Bogdanov, Trotsky, Bukharin and Stalin to Marxist ideology in Russia. Using primary documents, biographical sketches and a helpful timeline, the book provides a useful guide for students to orientate themselves among the various Marxist ideologies which they encounter in modern Russian history. White also incorporates valuable new research for Russian history specialists in a vital volume for anyone interested in the history of Marxism, Soviet history and the history of Russia across the modern period.
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Review
In this beautifully written and thoroughly researched tour de force, White presents the findings of a whole life's work on several connected themes: Marx's thought, Marx and Russia, Marx's reception in Russia, the Russian and European revolutionary movement, and the Russian Revolution. With characteristic clarity and wit, White demonstrates how inopportune deaths (Marx, Sieber), left the field open for a fundamental misconception of Marx's work to take hold in Russia via Engels, Plekhanov and Lenin. * Ian D. Thatcher, Professor of History, Ulster University, UK * White is a master of lucid presentation of complex ideas. His new book discusses Karl Marx's (and Friedrich Engels's) thinking on Russia and how the main Russian Marxists (Plekhanov, Lenin, Bogdanov, Trotsky and others) picked up his ideas while providing them with their own twist. The book is packed with new insights and original ideas. It convincingly shows the centrality of Russia in Marx's thought. The study of Russian conditions finally forced him to abandon the idea of capitalism as a universal system destined to absorb the world. The book continues with an elegant expose of the main tenets of the Russian Marxists on workers and intelligentsia; permanent revolution; imperialism; state and democracy; and dialectical philosophy. No doubt, this is the best and most complete introduction to Marxism and Russia in existence. * Erik van Ree, Assistant Professor of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * James White's Marx and Russia is a major and indispensable contribution to the topic of whether the Soviet Union was "Marxist". In easy prose, the author provides the reader with the fate of a doctrine in one country that has worldwide implications to this day. * Paul Zarembka, Professor of Economics, State University of New York, USA *
About the Author
James D. White is Honorary Professor in the Department of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov (2018), Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution (2001), Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism (1996) and The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1994).
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Cover 1
Half Title 2
Series 3
Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Preface 7
1 Marx and Russia 10
Marx’s ‘Critique of Political Economy’ 10
The abolition of serfdom 13
Haxthausen 15
The debate on the peasant commune 17
The Russian translation of Das Kapital 22
Marx’s studies of Russia 24
2 Marx’s Russian ‘Scientific Friends’ 32
Nikolai Sieber 32
Sieber defends Marx 36
Maxim Kovalevsky 43
Communal landownership 46
Collaboration with Marx 47
Marx’s letter to Vera Zasulich 49
Kovalevsky and Sieber 51
3 Engels 56
Engels as editor 56
Modernizing dialectics 59
The controversy with Tkachev 64
The publication of Marx’s letter to Otechestvennye Zapiski 66
4 Plekhanov 72
Socialism and the political struggle 76
Our Differences 80
Dialectical materialism 83
The famine of 1891 86
5 Lenin 94
What Is To Be Done? 101
Materialism and Empiriocriticism 107
The Marx and Engels correspondence 110
The ‘Philosophical Notebooks’ 112
6 Bogdanov 116
Vologda 119
Pravda 121
Democratic centralism 122
Socialist society 123
Conflict with Lenin 126
Proletarian culture 129
Tectology 131
7 Trotsky and permanent revolution 134
Parvus 137
Results and Prospects 138
Russia in the Revolution 141
Plekhanov’s History of Russian Social Thought 144
Pokrovsky and merchant capitalism 145
8 Theories of imperialism 152
Rosa Luxemburg 152
Hilferding 154
Kautsky 156
Trotsky 157
Skvortsov-Stepanov 159
Bukharin 161
Lenin 165
Bogdanov 168
9 Marxism and revolution 172
Marxism on the State 172
The dictatorship of the proletariat 173
A people’s revolution 175
The ‘April Theses’ 177
Bogdanov on Lenin’s ‘April Theses’ 179
Trotsky joins Lenin 181
Lenin and the banks 183
Questions of socialism 184
The nationalization of the banks 186
The fate of the workers’ party 187
10 Towards the ‘Short Course’ 190
Bukharin 190
Oppositions 193
Stalin’s Fundamentals of Leninism 195
Economic planning 197
Industrialization debates 198
The end of equilibrium 201
Leninskii sbornik 201
Istpart 203
Pokrovsky 206
Russia’s colonial status 208
The Short Course 209
Content 211
Dialectical and Historical Materialism 212
Concluding remarks 216
Bibliography 220
Index 230
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