Political Economy: A Textbook issued by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R

by Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

Part One: Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production
Chapter  1. The Primitive Communal Mode of Production
Chapter  2. The Slave-Owning Mode of Production
Chapter  3. The Feudal Mode of Production
Part Two : The Capitalist Mode of Production
A. Pre-Monopoly Capitalism
Chapter  4. Commodity Production. Commodities and Money
Chapter  5. Capitalist Simple Co-operation and Manufacture
Chapter  6. The Machine Period of Capitalism
Chapter  7. Capital and Surplus-Value. The Basic Economic Law of Capitalism
Chapter  8. Wages
Chapter  9. Accumulation of Capital and Impoverishment of the Proletariat
Chapter 10. Rotation and Turnover of Capital
Chapter 11. Average Profit and Price of Production
Chapter 12. Merchant Capital and Merchants’ Profit
Chapter 13. Loan Capital and Loan Interest. Circulation of Money
Chapter 14. Ground-Rent. Agrarian Relations under Capitalism
Chapter 15. The National Income
Chapter 16. Reproduction of Social Capital
Chapter 17. Economic Crises
B. Monopoly Capitalism-Imperialism
Chapter 18. Imperialism-The Highest Stage of Capitalism. The Basic Economic Law of Monopoly Capitalism
Chapter 19. The Colonial System of Imperialism
Chapter 20. The Place of Imperialism in History
Chapter 21. The General Crisis of Capitalism
Chapter 22. The Aggravation of the General Crisis of Capitalism after the Second World War
Economic Doctrines of the Capitalist Epoch
Part Three : The Socialist Mode of Production
A. The Transitional Period from Capitalism to Socialism
Chapter 23. Main Features of the Transitional Period from Capitalism to Socialism
Chapter 24. Socialist Industrialisation
Chapter 25. The Collectivisation of Agriculture
Chapter 26. The Victory of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
B. The Socialist Economic System
Chapter 27. The Material Production Basis of Socialism
Chapter 28. Social Ownership of the Means of Production-The Foundation of the Production Relations of Socialism
Chapter 29. The Basic Economic Law of Socialism
Chapter 30. The Law of Planned Proportional Development of the National Economy
Chapter 31. Social Labour in Socialist Society
Chapter 32. Commodity Production, the Law of Value, and Money, in Socialist Society
Chapter 33. Wages in Socialist Economy
Chapter 34. Economic Accounting and Profitability Costs and Price
Chapter 35. The Socialist System of Agriculture
Chapter 36. Trade in Socialist Economy
Chapter 37. The National Income of Socialist Society
Chapter 38. State Budget, Credit, and Currency Circulation in Socialist Society
Chapter 39. Socialist Reproduction
Chapter 40. The Gradual Transition from Socialism to Communism
C. The Building of Socialism in the Countries of People’s Democracy
Chapter 41. The Economic System of the People’s Democracies in Europe
Chapter 42. The Economic System of the Chinese People’s Republic
Chapter 43. Economic Collaboration between the Countries of the Socialist Camp

Genres: Politics

774 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 – to the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union).

In 1991, by the decree of the President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Russian Academy of Sciences was established on the basis of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

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[MaterialistAtheist · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best one work volume on Marxist economics. Beginners should read this instead of capital because it is much easier to read.