The authors provide a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. They bring together the insights of both development theory and the political economy of socialism to illustrate their theories. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of development studies, socialist economics, the Third World.

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Product Description: This final volume completes the history and analysis of the Vietnamese Revolution by bringing it up to final Communist victory in 1975. Although it deals with the relevant developments in the North, it basically concentrates on the struggle in the South following the massive US intervention in 1965...read more

This book responds to recent events by proposing a radical reshaping of Marxist theory. Taking the core problem as that of the historical subject, it conceptualises human life in terms of four interrelated practices. It explores these in turn in the context of a capitalism divided into 'centre' and 'periphery', primarily through nine 'theoretical reconstructions', which attempt to meet such problems as the labour theory of value, the nature and role of the state, and consciousness. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A study of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany in 1933 in light of the marxist proposition that revolution would come in advanced capitalist societies. The implications of the actual cases for the theory are drawn out, and an original theorization of capitalist crisis combining economic and political factors is put forward...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ken Post examines the 'turn to the East' by the international communist movement in fostering world revolution after the success in Russia in 1917, which led to communism's greatest gains after the Second World War. Based on a theorisation of the building of revolutionary movements, this study critically assesses communist strategy and tactics using three key cases, China, India and Brazil, drawing out implications for possible future developments in less-developed countries...read more

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Product Description: This study argues that the Europe which is now being united was originally the product of the French Revolution, 1789-95, and then formed by the emergent industrial capitalism. Given the prediction and fear that the new working class would launch another revolution which would spread, the author investigates why that did not in fact prove to be the case...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany in 1933 in light of the marxist proposition that revolution would come in advanced capitalist societies. The implications of the actual cases for the theory are drawn out, and an original theorization of capitalist crisis combining economic and political factors is put forward...read more