Soviet Economics

### **Soviet Economy**

* “The Experience of the Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution” by R.M. Jones https://libcom.org/files/factorycommitteesinrussia\_0.pdf [PDF, 332kb, EN]
* “Labor discipline and the decline of the soviet system” by Don Filtzer https://libcom.org/history/labor-discipline-decline-soviet-system-don-filtzer [EN]
* “What Was The USSR?: Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value Under State Capitalism” by Aufheben https://libcom.org/files/Aufheben-%20What%20was%20the%20USSR.pdf [PDF, 1MB, EN] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aufheben-what-was-the-ussr [various Formats, EN]
* “Capitalism or communism for Russia?” by Sylvia Pankhurst https://libcom.org/library/capitalism-or-communism-russia-sylvia-pankhurst [EN]
* “Наполеон III в Кремле: Был ли государственный капитализм в Советском Союзе?“ Антти Раутиайнен https://avtonom.org/pages/napoleon-iii-v-kremle-byl-li-gosudarstvennyy-kapitalizm-v-sovetskom-soyuze [RU]
* "Labor Discipline, the Use of Work Time, and the Decline of the Soviet System, 1928-1991" by Don Filtzer https://libcom.org/files/Labor%20Discipline%20and%20the%20Decline%20of%20the%20Soviet%20System.pdf [PDF, 1.3 MB, EN]
* "Dismissal of Workers for Absenteeism" http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1939-2/labor-discipline/labor-discipline-texts/dismissal-of-workers-for-absenteeism/ [EN]

### **Research Articles**

* "The Measurement of the Rate of Profit and the Bonus Scheme for Managers in the Soviet Union" by G. C. Harcourt (1966) https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/2662550 [PDF, 464kb, EN]
* "Capital, Profit and Bonus in Soviet Industry" by Stephen Merrett (1964) https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/2550518 [PDF, 352kb, EN]
* “Ideal and reality in the choice between Alternative Techniques” by Ronald L. Meek (1964) https://moscow.sci-hub.st/5105/75183530fa8f6966d9e4430df7371e3c/meek1964.pdf  [PDF, 1.6MB, EN]
* "The Role of Socialist Competition in Establishing Labour Discipline in the Soviet Working CLass 1928-1934" by John Russell https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/75712.pdf [PDF, 10.5 MB, EN]

### **Documents**

* “To the Russian Colony in North America” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/nov/14b.htm [HTML, EN]
* “Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Towards Socialism?” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11.htm [HTML, EN]
* “Session of the All-Russia C.E.C..” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/apr/29.htm [HTML, EN]
* “The Tax in Kind” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm [HTML, EN]
* “On Cooperation” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/06.htm [HTML, EN]
* “To:   L. D. TROTSKY” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/jan/21b.htm [HTML, EN]
* “ON STATE CAPITALISM” by Mao Tse-tung https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5\_30.htm [HTML, EN]
* “Role and Functions of the Trade Unions Under The New Economic Policy: Decision Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.), January 12, 1922” by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/dec/30.htm [HTML, EN]

### **Encyclopedia**

* "Udarnik" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udarnik [EN]
* "Stakhanovite movement" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite\_movement [EN]

### **Books**

* “The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite” by Simon Pirani https://libcom.org/files/The%20Russian%20revolution%20in%20retreat.pdf [PDF, 13.4MB, EN]
* “The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control” The State and Counter-Revolution” by Maurice Brinton https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/ [HTML, EN], https://libcom.org/library/the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control-solidarity-group [various formats, EN]
* “Red Petrograd. Revolution in the Factories. 1917-1918” by Steve Smith http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=A19BB125BE20BC10B8D614B42B4A7670 [PDF, 9MB, EN] (this was his PhD research, and he is an historian expert on Russian revolution, unlike Brinton, so this work is probably more reliable and accurate as a source. Here’s what Smith wrote via email: “My PhD which became my first book - Red Petrogard - derives from my wrestling with the libertarian critique of Bolshevism. In key respects, my research - and I genuinely had an open mind - showed that Brinton and Avrich fundamentally misunderstood the factory committees, which only very belatedly began to dabble with ideas of worker self-management (being overwhelmingly concerned with not letting workers bear the cost of the implosion of the war economy in 1917). More importantly I showed - as Goodey had suggested, but not really worked through - that the committees were seeking to centralise their activities with a view to being the directing centre of something like a planned economy, but one rooted in workers’ power. I also showed that Lenin - for a few months, until the scale of the collapse of the economy hit him - was broadly sympathetic to the concept of workers’ control. The far left uses Red Petrograd to show (correctly) how quickly the factory committee movement in Petrograd rallied around the Bolshevik cause. What they ignore is that the Bolshevik leaders showed scant interest in the factory committees until after October (...)”)
* “The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia”, Vol. 1-7 http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=The+Industrialisation+of+Soviet+Russia&lg\_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def [PDF, EN]
* “Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev” by R.W. Davies http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=AB39002E85EE8DADCDA387D163E3C15A [PDF, 5MB, EN]
* “The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945” by R.W. Davies, Mark Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=DB1D9A77CA2481CB39F3F4477A755ECB [PDF, 21MB, EN]
* “From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR” by R.W. Davies http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=36B3C2CCFD0912B556EC118205F2E23C [PDF, 44MB, EN]
* “Imperialism and World Economy” by Nikolai Bukharin https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/ [HTML, EN]
* An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991” by Alec Nove http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=38F1D24B970A7464853DA04249699CF3 [PDF, 2MB, EN]
* “Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev” by Sanchez-Sibony O. http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=091C0427ECDECA33341B33971216148C [PDF, 1MB, EN]
* “The Russian Revolution” by Sheila Fitzpatrick https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=41DF6001B44DFCA992EAEADD1408ED28 [EPUB, 729kb, EN], https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=249C02720D2C1AC5CA06D83F2A449202 [PDF, 7MB, EN], https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=8F23462E2E1B3F001C6953E1ADC42D39 [MOBI, 4MB, EN]
* “Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s” by Sheila Fitzpatrick http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=90254C9BA0512A72A0B698F636196AB8 [PDF, 2 MB, EN]
* “The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience” by Paresh Chattopadhyay https://libcom.org/files/the%20marxian%20concept%20of%20capital%20and%20the%20soviet%20experience.pdf [PDF, 6 MB, EN] (uses Marxist analysis in Das Kapital to critique the Soviet economy as profoundly an unmarxist one)

* “The Latest Deception” by Gabriel Miasnkov https://www.marxists.org/archive/miasnikov/1930/latest-deception/index.htm [EN]

### **Videos**

* “Nikita Khrushchev's Great Promise: Communism in the USSR by 1981 #communism” uploaded by USHANKA SHOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKeJVMLnAo [16:36, EN] (Soviet Ukranian immigrated to USA)
* “Soviet Mortgage. How My Family Struggled to Buy an Apartment in 1980 #ussr“ uploaded by USHANKA SHOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNZX1wLiaI [26:59, EN] (Soviet Ukranian immigrated to USA)
* “Could You Be Homeless in the USSR if Free Housing Was Available?” uploaded by USHANKA SHOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bffpuJvq-Y [13:24, EN] (Soviet Ukranian immigrated to USA)

### **Websites**

* “r/leftcommunism - USSR Was A Capitalist Society” http://archive.is/i7TuJ
* ““site: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin "state capitalism" - Google Search” https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin+%22state+capitalism%22

### **Notes**

* Bukharin identifies the next stage in economic development as “state capitalism”
* Lenin says state need a monopoly on capitalism to transition to socialism
* Many people claiming to be Marxist-Leninists don’t read the works of their idolized authors when they try to argue with leftcoms and anarchists denying the existence of state capitalism
* Many MLs don’t seem to know many of the bureaucrats never said their state was communist— only transitioning to communism
* On Soviet industrialisation and economy, R.W. Davies has done pioneering work (books are from 1980 to 2018!), especially with his series (partly with Stephen Wheatcroft)