Fall and rise of the asiatic mode of production

By:

Dunn, Stephen P

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Routledge & Kegan Paul.; 1982Description: 154 pISBN:

710090536

Subject(s):

Marxian economics

DDC classification:

335.412 Dun

Summary: Karl Marx, in his basic evolutionary model for human society, included a stage which has come to be called the 'Asiatic mode of production. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive intervention by the state in all forms of social life. In the Soviet Union, the concept has had a chequered and controversial career: leading writers, primarily Stalin, have denied its very existence, mobilizing the heavy artillery of state ideology in their defense, whilst later scholars show signs of reversing this trend. Drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, Stephen Dunn develops a critical analysis of the issue, and introduces important corrections to the accounts hitherto available in the West. His work should be of major interest to students of Soviet politics, economists and Marxists.

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Karl Marx, in his basic evolutionary model for human society, included a stage which has come to be called the 'Asiatic mode of production. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive intervention by the state in all forms of social life. In the Soviet Union, the concept has had a chequered and controversial career: leading writers, primarily Stalin, have denied its very existence, mobilizing the heavy artillery of state ideology in their defense, whilst later scholars show signs of reversing this trend.
Drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, Stephen Dunn develops a critical analysis of the issue, and introduces important corrections to the accounts hitherto available in the West. His work should be of major interest to students of Soviet politics, economists and Marxists.

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