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Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky, 1886-1937.

 Russian Bolshevik, Yevgeni (or Evgenii) A. Preobrazhensky was largely responsible for rewriting Marxian theory for an agrarian economy, particularly emphasizing the possibility of "socialist accumulation" to replace the capitalist phase (1926) by expanding industry at the expense of peasantry (via prices, not coercion).  In the debate over Soviet planning, Preobrazhensky's  proposition that went against the idea of the Bukharin's "New Economic Policy" and led to a period under exile in Siberia.   Despite his earlier associations as Trotsky's economic guru, Preobrazhensky soon became a favorite of Joseph Stalin, who brought him back into public life in 1930.  However, Preobrazhensky's prediction of the crisis caused by Stalin's industrialization plans led him to be arrested in 1936, and subsequently shot.

 

  

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Major Works of Yevgeni Preobrazhensky

  • The ABC of Communism, with Nikolai Bukharin, 1920 [mia]
  • Paper Money in the Epoch of the Proletarian Dictatorship, 1922.
  • From NEP to Socialism, 1922. [mia]
  • The New Economics, 1926.
  • Economics and Finances of Contemporary France, 1926.
  • The Theory of a Depreciating Currency, 1930.
  • The Decline of Capitalism, 1931.
  • The Crisis of Soviet Industrialization, 1980.

 
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