Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology - Paperback

'One of the true geniuses of the Russian Revolution" - Kevin Murphy, Jacobin

First published in 1921, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, expands upon Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism.

Offering a Marxist interpretation of sociology, this edition is important not only from a sociological and economic perspective, but is also extremely valuable as a socio-historical document of contemporary thought in the Soviet Union in the years following the Bolshevik revolution.

'History would have turned out differently if Nikolai Bukharin, a key figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and his more progressive ideas had been at the center of Soviet society.' - The Washington Post

'Bukharin's analysis is still in advance of much contemporary discussion ... Without a development of his arguments, albeit a critical one, the modern world cannot be understood.' - Michael Haynes, Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

Praise

'It is Bukharin's ghost, the indelible memory of his post-Marxian philosophy and his remarkable prevision of the Nazi-Soviet rapprochement and the inevitable deterioration of Stalin's Russia into proto-Fascism, which remains to haunt the Communist world.' - The New York Times

'History would have turned out differently if Nikolai Bukharin, a key figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and his more progressive ideas had been at the center of Soviet society.' - The Washington Post

'Bukharin's analysis is still in advance of much contemporary discussion ... Without a development of his arguments, albeit a critical one, the modern world cannot be understood.' - Michael Haynes, Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

'The enduring body of Bukharin's works cast a lurid light over the Soviet regime which has emerged since the death of Stalin' - The New York Times

'One of the true geniuses of the Russian Revolution" - Kevin Murphy, Jacobin

'Bukharin is not only the party's most valuable and greatest theoretician but he is also rightfully considered the favorite of the whole party." - Vladimir Lenin, Last Testament: Letters to the Congress

'Bukharin, like Leon Trotsky, embodied the internationalist traditions of Soviet Communism before its descent into Stalinist chauvinism.' - Dr. Stephen F. Cohen

'Bukharin's unique importance in the history of Soviet Russia lies in the fact that he alone offered for that country a way forward radically opposed to the one adopted by Stalin.' Professor Leonard Schapiro, The New York Review of Books