This book presents a narrative of one of the more interesting utopian experiments in comparative political and economic history: the first decade of the Soviet

An assessment of the first Soviet economic system, comparing programmes with outsomes, and theory with practice.

A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and

Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.