Selected Political and Economic Writings

From the Hungarian Revolution to Orthodox Economic Theory in The USSR

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Author:
Eugen Varga
Editor / Translator:
André Mommen
Born in 1879, Eugen Varga would become the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union – ‘Stalin’s economist’. This volume contains 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 includes the entire text of his Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship, according to Lenin probably the best work on the collapse of the revolutionary government in Hungary. A detailed critical introduction by Varga’s biographer, André Mommen, supplies valuable background detail on the circumstances of Varga’s work, contextualising it in relation to political events and the development of orthodox economic theory in the USSR.
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2021
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Front Matter
Copyright Page
Preface
Abbreviations
About Translations, Transliteration and References
Eugen Varga: An Introduction to His Life and Works
Part 1 The Hungarian Councils’ Republic (1919)
Introduction to Part 1
Chapter 1 Political-Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship
Part 2 The Comintern Years (1920–38)
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 2 The International Situation: A Study of Capitalism in Collapse (Presented to the Moscow Congress, 1921) by Leon Trotsky and Prof. E. Varga
Chapter 3 Economic Basis of Imperialism in the US of North America
Chapter 4 The Economic Crisis of Germany
Chapter 5 The Crisis of the Capitalist World Economy
Chapter 6 The Situation of the World Economy and the Evolution of the World Economic Policy during the Last Three Years
Chapter 7 The Process of Capitalist Decline (Report to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International)
Chapter 8 The Decline of Capitalism
Chapter 9 Introduction to: Materials on the Situation of the Peasant Movement in the Most Important Countries
Chapter 10 The Decline of Capitalism: The Economics of a Period of the Decline of Capitalism after Stabilisation
Chapter 11 Accumulation and Breakdown of Capitalism
Chapter 12 The Great Crisis and Its Political Consequences: Economics and Politics 1928–34
Part 3 The General Crisis of Capitalism (1939–64)
Chapter 13 The Imperialist Struggle for a New Redivision of the World
Chapter 14 Changes in Capitalism during the War
Chapter 15 Plans for Currency Stabilisation
Chapter 16 World Currency Headache
Chapter 17 Toward a New Crash?
Chapter 18 The General Crisis of Capitalism (Features of the Home and Foreign Policy of the Capitalist Countries during the Epoch of the General Crisis of Capitalism)
Chapter 19 Democracy of a New Type
Chapter 20 Anglo-American Rivalry and Partnership: A Marxist View
Chapter 21 The Increased Role of the State in the Economy of the Capitalist Countries
Chapter 22 The Impoverishment Tendencies in the War Economy of the Capitalist Countries
Chapter 23 Concentration and Centralisation of Production and Capital during the War
Chapter 24 Economic Regulation and Absence of Planning in the Capitalist Countries during the War
Chapter 25 Towards an Economic Crisis in the USA
Chapter 26 Crisis Hits the USA
Chapter 27 Problems of the Postwar Industrial Cycle and the New Crisis of Overproduction
Chapter 28 The Problem of Inter-imperialist Contradictions and War
Chapter 29 Changes in the Reproduction Cycle Following the Second World War
Chapter 30 Problems of State-Monopoly Capitalism
Back Matter
Bibliography
Index
Eugen Varga (1879-1964) was one of the most prominent writers on economic affairs in the USSR.

André Mommen (1945–2017) was a Belgian political economist, editor and author. He authored many books and essays, including a biography of Varga, Stalin’s Economist (Routledge, 2011).
Historians of the Soviet Union, students of Marxist political economy, and anyone concerned with Russian Marxism, the history of Communism in Hungary, or Stalinism.
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