ABOUT THIS BOOK

Baron brings together eleven articles published between 1958 and 1986 with a new introduction and an autobiographical essay that serves as a coda to the collection. The essays examine Georgi V. Plekhanov's ideas about history and their relationship to Soviet historiography, most especially his concept of poet-primitive Russia not as a Western feudal society but rather an Oriental despotism, and his views on the prospect for socialism in the United States. Baron also includes two pieces that revise his earlier thinking about Plekhanov, retracing his steps and exploring paths he neglected in his earlier research for his major biography, Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism (1963).

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Samuel H. Baron is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history, University of North Carolina.

REVIEWS

“A sensitive portrayal of Russia's first Marxist and a lucid analysis of the vicissitudes of his fortunes as theoretician and historian. . . . a discerning view of Plekhanov's historical thought and the fortunes of Marxist theory in pre-revolutionary Russia and its successor Soviet state.”
—The Historian

“Baron is as he has always been—an excellent analyst, meticulous researcher, and a writer of scholarly distinction.”
—EastWest Education

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Introduction

1. Between Marx and Lenin: Georgii Plekhanov

2. Plekhanov's Russia: The Impact of the West Upon an "Oriental" Society

3. Plekhanov, Trotskii, and the Development of Soviet Historiography

4. The Resurrection of Plekhanovism in Soviet Historiography

5. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism in Russia: A Major Soviet Historical Controversy

6. Marx's Grundisse and the Asiatic Mode of Production

7. Feudalism or the Asiatic Mode of Production: Alternative Marxian Interpretations of Russian History

8. Plekhanov, International Socialism, and the Revolution of 1905

9. Plekhanov and American Exceptionalism

10. Plekhanov in War and Revolution, 1914-1917

11. My Life with G. V. Plekhanov

Notes

Bibliography

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