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Subject(s)

• Economists—Soviet Union—Biography [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Economic policy—1917-1928 [Browse]
• Varga, Jenő [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 127. [More in this series]

Summary note

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,

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

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.

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ISBN

• 1-136-79345-3
• 1-283-12694-X
• 9786613126948
• 1-136-79346-1
• 0-203-82634-5

OCLC

• 729166493
• 732320636

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203826348

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