Perestroika: a Marxist Critique

By Sam Marcy

• Introduction

• The global context of restructuring

• How the imperialists see detente

• Gorbachev's world view

• Two revolutions and their thinkers

• Crime and the reforms

• Soviet economic restructuring and the capitalist market

• The debate over foreign trade

• Joint ventures and socialist planning

• Gorbachev's June 1987 report on the reforms

• The problem of consumer goods: An historical review

• Marxism and material incentives

• Trade unions, wages and prices

• The reforms and the national question: Armenia and Azerbaijan

• On the eve of the Soviet party conference

• The Soviet reforms and the thrust from the right

• The conservative opposition

• The Makarov thesis

• Gorbachev's response to the crisis over Nagorno-Karabakh

• Socialism and the equality of nations

• The struggle in the Baltic states

• The structure of the Soviet state

• Rise of the USSR as a world power

• The shift in the party leadership

• North and South: National tensions and economic change

• The socialist solution to the food problem: Part I

• The socialist solution to the food problem: Part II

• The miners' strike: Working class resurgence

• Aftermath of the miners' strike

• Appendix 1: Siberian Rivers

• Appendix 2: The ruble and the dollar in the world struggle

• Appendix 3: Chronology [Covers events referred to in this book]

• Glossary of terms and names

• Bibliography

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