The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

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Dunn, Stephen

 
9780415616218: The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 0415616212 ISBN 13: 9780415616218
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the ‘Asiatic mode of production’ described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. 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 defence, 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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Stephen Dunn

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415616212
ISBN 13 
9780415616218
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
170

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