Tony Cliff

State Capitalism in Russia

(1955/1974)

This text is based on a duplicated internal document of the British RCP entitled The Class Nature of Russia, June 1948.
This version was originally published as Stalinist Russia. A Marxist Analysis in 1955.
Republished as Book I of Russia: A Marxist Analysis in 1964.
Republished with revised chapter order as State Capitalism in Russia in 1974 – this title and chapter order has been adopted for the on-line version.
Republished with the Postscript by Chris Harman in 1988 and 1996.
Available in book form from Bookmarks Publications.
A number of obvious typesetting errors have been corrected without comment.
Transcribed by Dylan Stillwood, Rolf Vorhaug & Einde O'Callaghan
Marked up by Dylan Stillwood, Rolf Vorhaug & Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

Introduction

Publisher’s Introduction (1974)

1. Socio-economic relations in Stalinist Russia

2. State and party in Stalinist Russia

3. The economy of a workers’ state

4. The material heritage of pre-October society

5. The common and different features of state capitalism and a workers’ state

6. A further consideration of Stalinist society, economics and politics

7. Russian economy and the Marxian law of value and theory of capitalist crisis
(Economic determinism in the Stalinist regime)

8. The imperialist expansion of Russia

9. The class struggle in Russia

Postscript 1988
From Stalin to Gorbachev, by Chris Harman

Appendix 1
An examination of Trotsky’s definition of Russia as a degenerated workers’ state

Appendix 2
The theory of bureaucratic collectivism: A critique

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