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This is the first of two books comprising Alec Nove's previously unpublished writings. Nove believed that economic theory should be constructed from real experience and not simply from theory because that does not relate to real economies. He argued for a more humane economic system.
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• Contribution to Eastern growth / by Stanislaw Gomulka and Alec Nove
• Survey of sectoral case studies / by George D. Holliday.

• Introduction: Socialism
• Part 1 The Legacy of Marx * What Did Marx Mean By Socialism? * Abundance, Scarcity and The New Man * The Law of Value Under Socialism * A Digression on Marxian Economics * Sancta Simplicitas * The Ex Ante Illusion * Quality And Quantity * Division of Labour * Material and Moral Incentives * The Proletariat and Productive Labour * The Legacy of Marx: Some Conclusions * Addendum: More on Human Psychology and 'Reductionism'
• Part 2 Socialism and The Soviet Experience * Introduction * Externalities and 'Internalities' * Shortages and the Sellers' Market * Plan Indicators And The Evaluation of Performance * The 'Curse of Scale', Innovation and Bureaucratic Fragmentation * Is it Planning? * Class Structure, Labour, Wages and Trade Unions * Agriculture and The Peasants * Investment Decisions and Criteria in Theory and Practice * Prices in Theory and Practice * Mathematical Methods and Programming * Growth and Full Employment * Foreign Trade * The Cost of What Is Missing * Conclusion: Centralised Planning and Democratic Socialism * A Short Digression on 'Ideology'
• Part 3 Reform Models: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, China * Some 'Revisionist' Critiques * The Hungarian Reform * Yugoslavia and Workers' Self-Management * Private Agriculture in Yugoslavia and Poland: Peasants and Farmers * The Polish Experience: the Road to Catastrophe * China: Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and Reform
• Part 4 Transition * Some Introductory Remarks * Transition I: From Capitalism to Socialism * Some Thoughts on Nationalism * Transition II: From 'Socialism' to Socialism * 'Development Socialism'
• Part 5 Feasible Socialism * Some Social-Political Assumptions * Enterprises, Markets and Competition * Prices, Profits, and Theory of Value * Division of Labour, Income Differentials and Self-Management * Investments and Growth * Foreign Trade * The Economic Role of Democratic Politics * Is It Socialism? Conclusion.
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The first part of The Economics of Feasible Socialism demonstrates why Marx's theories provide no guide to the issues that must face economists under any realistically conceivable Socialism. The experience of communist-ruled countries, especially the former Soviet Union, is often negative: economic inefficiency, bureaucracy, despotism. The causes of these defects and possible remedies and reforms are discussed. The problems of transition, in the context of Western industrialized countries and of developing countries, is also examined, with particular attention centred on the errors of economic policy in Chile and China, amongst other countries.
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• Preface
• A note on the notes Introduction: Socialism - Why? Part 1: The Legacy of Marx Part 2: Socialism and the Soviet Experience Part 3: Reform Models: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, China Part 4: Transition Part 5: Feasible Socialism Conclusion Appendix 1: On Contradiction Appendix 2: Two Critiques Appendix 3: A Note on Utopia Index.
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The Economics of Feasible Socialism is a path-breaking book. Characteristically readable, controversial and full of insights, Nove identifies a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetched or utopian assumptions. It has been immensely influential in the West, and is available in translation in China, Hungary and the Soviet Union. Alec Nove begins by demonstrating why Marx's theories provide a misleading guide to the issues facing economists under any realistically conceivable socialism. He goes on to discuss the problems experinced by communist-ruled countries, especially the Soviet Union, and to suggest possible remedies and solutions. Nove also examines problems of transition, in the context of Western industrialised countries and the Third World. He concludes by outlining a possible efficienct and human socialism, and examines objections to these ideas from the Left and the Right.
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• Preface
• A note on the notes Introduction: Socialism - Why? Part 1: The Legacy of Marx Part 2: Socialism and the Soviet Experience Part 3: Reform Models: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, China Part 4: Transition Part 5: Feasible Socialism Conclusion Appendix 1: On Contradiction Appendix 2: Two Critiques Appendix 3: A Note on Utopia Index.
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The Economics of Feasible Socialism is a path-breaking book. Characteristically readable, controversial and full of insights, Nove identifies a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetched or utopian assumptions. It has been immensely influential in the West, and is available in translation in China, Hungary and the Soviet Union. Alec Nove begins by demonstrating why Marx's theories provide a misleading guide to the issues facing economists under any realistically conceivable socialism. He goes on to discuss the problems experinced by communist-ruled countries, especially the Soviet Union, and to suggest possible remedies and solutions. Nove also examines problems of transition, in the context of Western industrialised countries and the Third World. He concludes by outlining a possible efficienct and human socialism, and examines objections to these ideas from the Left and the Right.
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• What was
• Stalin and Stalinism
• the rehabilitation of history or the history of rehabilitation
• the terror
• religion, nationalism, morality
• literature and the media
• politics, sociology and law
• economic problems and issues
• now what?. Appendix: Journals and newspapers.
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This text is an analysis of the ways in which "glasnost" has affected the lives of Soviet citizens, examining current Soviet writings. It represents an attempt to give the non-specialist reader some notion of what has happened in the Soviet cultural scene in recent years. It covers not only literature, but also developments in history, law, the social sciences and new frankness on issues such as nationalism, religion, women, corruption and others. The authors contrast these changes with past bans, taboos and silences. This is not a speculative book about Soviet society and its future, but rather an inside look at "glasnost".
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• What was
• Stalin and Stalinism
• the rehabilitation of history or the history of rehabilitation
• the terror
• religion, nationalism, morality
• literature and the media
• politics, sociology and law
• economic problems and issues
• now what?. Appendix: Journals and newspapers.
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This text is an analysis of the ways in which "glasnost" has affected the lives of Soviet citizens, examining current Soviet writings. It represents an attempt to give the non-specialist reader some notion of what has happened in the Soviet cultural scene in recent years. It covers not only literature, but also developments in history, law, the social sciences and new frankness on issues such as nationalism, religion, women, corruption and others. The authors contrast these changes with past bans, taboos and silences. This is not a speculative book about Soviet society and its future, but rather an inside look at "glasnost".
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• Part 1 Economics without markets - from Marx to contemporary Marxists.
• Part 2 Economics without markets - critiques.
• Part 3 From central planning to the mixed economy.
• Part 4 Markets and socialism in the West.
• Part 5 From existing socialism to the market.
• Part 6 Market socialism - the last stand?
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These extracts concern the relationship between market and plan, or how to organize an economy to best satisfy demands for efficiency, compassion and freedom. Beginning with Karl Marx, this volume presents the non-market, market and mixed market models. It includes the "socialist calculation" debate and the experiences of Russia, East-Central Europe, Sweden, the US and China.
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The late Alec Nove explores the relationship between Marxist ideas and the Soviet reality and presents a methodology for understanding Soviet type societies.
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• History, hierarchy and nationalities.--Russia as an emergent country.--A note on Trotsky and the "Left" opposition, 1929-31.--Lenin as economist.--Some observations on Bukharin and his ideas.--Planners' preferences, priorities and reforms.--"Market socialism" and its critics.--Some developments in East European economic thought.--The politics of economic reform.--Can Eastern Europe feed itself?--Inflation in Communist countries.--Is there a ruling class in the USSR?--Some observations in criteria for the study of the Soviet Union.

• History, hierarchy and nationalities.--Russia as an emergent country.--A note on Trotsky and the "Left" opposition, 1929-31.--Lenin as economist.--Some observations on Bukharin and his ideas.--Planners' preferences, priorities and reforms.--"Market socialism" and its critics.--Some developments in East European economic thought.--The politics of economic reform.--Can Eastern Europe feed itself?--Inflation in Communist countries.--Is there a ruling class in the USSR?--Some observations in criteria for the study of the Soviet Union.

• Introduction, Naum Jasny, by A. Nove.--Priorities and shortfalls in pre-war Soviet planning, by H. Hunter.--Plans to urbanize the countryside, 1950-61, by L. Richter.--The role of the state bank in Soviet planning, by G. Garvy.--The theory of international comparisons of economic volume, by P. Wiles.--Soviet planners in 1936-37, by J. Miller.--Welfare criteria in Soviet planning, by M. C. Kaser.--Development aid for development's sake, by W. Klatt.--Towards a theory of planning, by A. Nove.--Some statistical comparisons, by C. Clark.--Naum Jasny at eighty, by J. H. Richter.--Bibliography of the principal works of Naum Jasny (p.221-224)

What was "Stalinism"? How far was it in line with the teachings of Marx and the practice of Lenin? Was it the logical outcome of the revolution, or was it a sort of counter-revolution? How far was Stalin an absolute ruler? Was he popular? How much support did his regime have, and from whom? What was the scale and purpose of the terror? Was there any alternative to him or to his policies? These and other controversial issues are discussed by five scholars from the USA, the Soviet Union and Britain who put forward constrasting interpretations of the phenomenon of Stalinism. The contributors are: R.W. Davies, Sheila Fitzpatrick, J. Arch Getty and Segei Mikoyan.
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• Part 1 Genesis: the Russian political tradition
• the circumstances of revolution
• "NEP" and the rise of the Secretariat
• the great debate - socialism in one country
• the great turning-point. Part 2 The system consolidated: the revolution from above
• privilege, inequality, hierarchy, discipline
• the Seventeenth Congress and the Great Terror
• the purposes of the purge
• the cultural counter-revolution and neo-nationalism
• foreign policy turnabouts
• economic policies in the mid-thirties. Part 3 War: Munich and the Nazi-Soviet pact
• Stalin's big mistake
• Stalin the war leader. Part 4 The last years of Stalin: the brief false spring
• Stalin and the Cold War
• political and cultural repression at home
• economic progress and the Nineteenth Party Congress
• the end of an era
• a digression - what explanation for Stalinism? Part 5 Stalin's heirs and Stalin's legacy: Malenkov outmanoeuvred - Krushchev wins power
• Krushchev's policies and "destalinization"
• Krushchev challenged and triumphant. Part 6 The fall of Krushchev and the rise of Brezhnev: the Brezhnev regime
• what does Brezhnev stand for. Part 7 Brezhnev's death and Gorbachev's rise: Gorbachev and Stalin.
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Alec Nove traces the origins of Stalinism in the USSR, critically analyses its nature and achievements, examines the process of destalinisation which followed Stalin's death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system under Krushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev. His previous books include "Socialism, Economics, and Development", "The Soviet Economic System", "Was Stalin Really Necessary?" and "Economic History of the USSR".
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• Part 1 History of economic ideas: three early Russian economists
• M.I.Tugan-Baranovsky. Part 2 Economic history: war communism
• Lenin and the new economic policy
• Trotsky, markets and East European reforms
• the end of NEP
• the Soviet peasantry in the war
• industry under Khrushchev
• Russian modernization. Part 3 Economics - east and west: planning
• markets? yes but...
• Friedman, markets and planning - a comment
• the fragmentionist debate
• Marxism and "really existing socialism"
• planning and markets
• "feasible socialism" revisited
• Soviet reforms and Western neo-classical economics. Part 4 Contemporary USSR: has Soviet growth ceased?
• labour incentives
• Soviet agriculture
• the contribution of imported technology to Soviet growth
• the defence burden
• is within-system reform possible?
• Soviet economic reform - progress and frustrations.
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A collection of papers reflecting a wide range of thought, from the history of Russian economic thought to the possible ramifications of changes in contemporary Soviet economic policy with respect to the problems created by a functioning "capitalist-style" market.
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