Russia
From Workers' State to State Capitalism
Description
To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalismunemployment, poverty, the threat of new warsto place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.
Author Bios
Anthony Arnove produced the Academy Award-nominated documentary Dirty Wars and wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn. He is the editor of several books, including Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which Arnove co-edited with Zinn, The Essential Chomsky, and Iraq Under Siege, and is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. He is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Review.
Tony Cliff was a lifelong organizer within the international socialist movement. His groundbreaking work established the unique interpretation of the Soviet Union as a bureaucratic, state-centered version of capitalism, rather than a workers' state. His many works include State Capitalism in Russia and the volume that follows-up from this book, All Power to the Soviets, about Lenin's political leadership from 1914 to 1917.
Chris Harman is the author of several books, including A People’s History of the World.
Ahmed Shawki (1960-2023) co-founded Haymarket Books and was on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. He also authored Black Liberation and Socialism.
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Publication date: July 25, 2017
