Stalin's economist : the economic contributions of Jeno Varga / Andre Mommen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mommen, Andre., author.

Series:

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 127.

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Varga, Jenő.

Economists--Soviet Union--Biography.

Economists.

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1917-1928.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jen?) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on Stalin's foreign policy and through the Comintern on the international communist movement. During the Hungarian Councils' Republic of 1919 Varga was one of those chiefly responsible for transforming the economy into one big industrial and agrarian firm under state authority. After the fall of the revolutionary regime that year, Varga joined the Hungarian Communist Party, soon after which, he would become one of the Comintern's leading economists,

Contents:

The making of a Marxist

The making of a Bolshevik

Economist of the Comintern (1920-8)

Between Bukharin and Stalin (1928-30)

The agrarian question

In Berlin (1924-7)

The general crisis of capitalism

A depression of a special kind

Surviving the Stalinist purges

Two world systems

Reparation payments and Marshall Plan (1941-7)

The Varga controversy

Adviser to Rákosi

Writing a textbook

Problems of monopoly capitalism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-79345-3

1-283-12694-X

9786613126948

1-136-79346-1

0-203-82634-5

OCLC:

729166493