Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I. The German Contribution, 1883-1914
6. 1. Friedrich Engels and the Marxian Legacy, 1883-95 3
7. 2. Engels and the 'Prize Essay Competition' in the Theory of Value 21
8. 3. First Debates in Value Theory, 1895-1914 42
9. 4. Bernstein, Kautsky and the Revisionist Controversy 65
10. 5. Finance Capital and Imperialism: Karl Kautsky and Rudolf Hilferding 90
11. 6. Capital Accumulation, Imperialism and War: Rosa Luxemburg and Otto Bauer 106
12. Part II. The Russian Contribution to 1917
13. 7. The Inheritance of Russian Marxism 129
14. 8. The Political Economy of Plekhanov 146
15. 9. Populism and Orthodox Marxism in the 1890s 165
16. 10. Russian Revisionism 184
17. 11. Lenin's Political Economy, 1905-14 201
18. 12. Trotsky on Uneven and Combined Development 222
19. 13. Imperialism and War: Bukharin and Lenin on Monopoly Capitalism, 1914-17 243
20. Part III. Social Democracy and Communism, 1917-1929
21. 14. The Revival of Revisionism 269
22. 15. The Transition to Socialism: Communist Economics, 1917-29 286
23. 16. Henryk Grossmann and the Breakdown of Capitalism 316
24. Conclusion 337
25. Index of Names 341
26. Index of Subjects 347