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The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis by Frank Furedi
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The Soviet Union Demystified: A Materialist Analysis is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by Junius Publications in 1986 (ISBN 978-0-948392-05-4)

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Part 1: The emergence of the Soviet Union 1.3 Part 2: The Soviet social formation 1.4 Part 3: Class and international relations 1.5 Conclusion 2 External links

1. The transition to communism
   1. Marx on the proletarian dictatorship
   2. Lenin on planning
   3. Workers' control under the Bolsheviks
   4. The disappearing proletariat
   5. The transformation of the party
   6. The administration and the old order
   7. The last chance
2. The demise of proletarian power
   1. The price of economic reconstruction
   2. Crisis in the countryside
   3. Workers' control usurped
   4. The Left Opposition
3. The emergence of the new society
   1. Industrialisation
   2. The consolidation of the bureaucracy
   3. Limits to the consolidation of the bureaucracy
   4. The new order
   5. Growth without harmony
   6. Critics in the wilderness
   7. Trotsky's inconsistencies
4. Stalinism and destalinisation
   1. The achievements of the Stalinist regime
   2. The price of growth
   3. The Stalinist order
   4. Shifts in the apparatus
   5. From Khrushchev to Gorbachev

1. Economic regulation
   1. Marx on the development of society
   2. The social history of work
   3. Beyond the law of value
   4. The emergence of a new society
   5. Collectivisation and industrialisation
   6. The foundations of the new order
   7. The limits of priority allocation
2. Laws of motion
   1. The persistence of spontaneity
   2. Central control and the enterprise
   3. Symptoms of crisis
   4. The tendency towards fragmentation
   5. The question of quality
   6. The disintegrating division of labour
   7. The atomisation of society
3. Counteracting chaos
   1. The reform debate
   2. The failure of decentralisation
   3. The search for a success indicator
   4. Organising around the forces of spontaneity
   5. The case of agriculture
   6. Making them work

1. The bureaucracy
   1. The Marxist theory of class
   2. Class power in history
   3. The power of the Kremlin
   4. Bureaucrats and workers
2. The working class
   1. The drive for labour discipline
   2. Skilled and unskilled
   3. Changing living standards
   4. Passivity and protest
   5. A class of individuals
   6. The role of the family
   7. The role of ideology
   8. Future trends
3. Foreign policy
   1. 'The evil empire'
   2. The East-West clash
   3. Stalin abroad
   4. The evolution of foreign policy
   5. The limits to Soviet global power
   6. Is the Soviet Union imperialist?
   7. The myths of the new Cold War
   8. Future trends

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