num_pages: 1204
description: Born in 1879 Eugen Varga became the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union referred to as 'Stalin's economist.' As the official theorist of the early USSR Varga was easily one of the most influential economists of the 20th century yet his ideas are largely unknown in the West. By selecting and translatingoften for the first timesome of his most important works this volume aims to correct the record.Selected Political and Economic Writings offers a wide and representative selection of his works dating from his entry into the Hungarian Communist Party in 1919 through to his criticisms of John Maynard Keynes in the 1950s. It also includes the entire text of his Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship cited by Lenin as the best work on the collapse of the revolutionary government in Hungary.
language: English
title: Selected Political and Economic Writings of Eugen Varga: From the Hungarian Revolution to Orthodox Economic Theory in The USSR
publisher: Haymarket Books