What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?
(1936)
Written; 1936.
First published: 1937.
Translated. by Max Eastman.
Transcribed for the Internet: by Zodiac between August 1993 and March 1996.
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INTRODUCTION: The Purpose of the Present Work
I. – WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth
Comparative Estimates of These Achievements
Production per Capita of the Population
II. – ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP
“Military Communism”, “The New Economic Policy” (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak
A Sharp Turn: “The Five-Year Plan in Four Years” and “Complete Collectivization”
III. – SOCIALISM AND THE STATE
The Dual Character of the Workers’ State
“Generalized Want” and the Gendarme
The “Complete Triumph of Socialism” and the “Reinforcement of the Dictatorship”
IV. – THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOR
The Rehabilitation of the Ruble
V. – THE SOVIET THERMIDOR
The Degeneration of the Bolshevik Party
VI. – THE GROWTH OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL ANTAGONISMS
The Differentiation of the Proletariat
Social Contradictions in the Collective Village
The Social Physiognomy of the Ruling Stratum
VII. – FAMILY, YOUTH AND CULTURE
The Struggle against the Youth
VIII. – FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ARMY
From “World Revolution” to Status Quo
The League of Nations and the Communist International
The Red Army and Its Doctrines
The Abolition of the Militia and the Restoration of Officers’ Ranks
IX. – SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE SOCIAL UNION
Is the Bureaucracy a Ruling Class?
The Question of the Character of the Soviet Union Not Yet Decided by History
X. – THE SOVIET UNION IN THE MIRROR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION
Work “According to Ability” and Personal Property
XI. – WHITHER THE SOVIET UNION?
Bonapartism as a Regime of Crisis
