Second Edition, 1995; First published Wembley 1980.

FOREWORD This book is an analysis of the economic system which was developed in the USSR after the "economic reforms" of 1965-66 - an analysis made on the basis of a mass of evidence taken almost exclusively from official Soviet economic journals. Taking into account the  virtual abolition of centralised economic planning, the introduction of profit as the regulator of production, the vesting of effective ownership and "hiring and firing" rights in industrial  management, and the inequitable distribution of enterprise profit between managerial and shop floor personnel, the author reached the conclusion - as the title indicates - that by the 1970s the soviet economy had become essentially a restored capitalist system masquerading under red flags which are no longer appropriate.

W.B. Bland's organisation, the Communist League (Britain), is now part of Communist Party Alliance. For other works by Bill Bland see the CL site.

INTRODUCTION	ussrintro.html
1. The Abolition of Centralised Economic Planning	ussrchap1.html
2. Profit as the Regulator of Production	ussrchap2.html
3. The "Socialist Market"	ussrchap3.html
4. Payment For Production Assets	ussrchap4.html
5. Credit and Interest	ussrchap5.html
6. Ownership of the Means of Production	ussrchap6.html
7. The New Soviet Capitalist	ussrchap7.html
8. Freedom to Hire and Fire	ussrchap8.html
9. The Primitive Accumulation of Capital	ussrchap9-12.html
10. The Sale of Labour Power	ussrchap9-12.html
11. The Value of Labour Power	ussrchap9-12.html
12. The Price of Labour Power	ussrchap9-12.html
13. Managerial Salaries	ussrchap13-15.html
14. "Price Control"	ussrchap13-15.html
15. The Retention of Profit by the Enterprise	ussrchap13-15.html
16. "Economic Incentives"	ussrchap16-18.html
17. "Socialist Profit"	ussrchap16-18.html
18. The Distribution of "Socialist Profit"	ussrchap16-18.html
19. "Divide and Rule"	ussrchap19-23.html
20. Anti-Semitism	ussrchap19-23.html
21. Corporatism	ussrchap19-23.html
22. The Social Services	ussrchap19-23.html
23. Environmental Pollution	ussrchap19-23.html
24. "Moral Stimuli"	ussrchap24-26.html
25. Economic Coercion	ussrchap24-26.html
26. National Discrimination	ussrchap24-26.html
27. The International Division of Labour	ussrchap27-29.html
28. Investment "	ussrchap27-29.html
29. Rationalisation and Redundancy "	ussrchap27-29.html
30. The Concentration and Centralisation of Capital	ussrchap30-31.html
31. Soviet Monopoly Capitalism	ussrchap30-31.html
32. A "Superfluity of Capital"	ussrchap32-34.html
33. The Exploitation of the Working Class	ussrchap32-34.html
34. The Market Problem	ussrchap32-34.html
35. The Class Structure of Soviet Society in the 1970s	ussrchap35-end.html
36. The Role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union	ussrchap35-end.html
37. The Character of the Soviet State	ussrchap35-end.html
38. Conclusion	ussrchap35-end.html
Appendices 1 and 2. Statistics relating to National Discrimination	ussrappendix1-2.html
Appendix 3. The "Leningrad Affair"	ussrleningrad.html

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