Tony Cliff

The Nature of Stalinist Russia

(1948)

Originally published in June 1948 as a duplicated internal document of the British RCP.
Republished in Tony Cliff. Marxist Theory After Trotsky, Selected Writings, Volume 3, Bookmarks, London 2003, pp.1-138.
Available from Bookmarks Publications.
A number of obvious typesetting errors have been corrected without comment.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

Introduction

Translator’s Note

1. An examination of Trotsky’s definition of Russia as a degenerated workers’ state

2. The economy of a workers’ state

3. The material heritage of pre-October society

4. Russia’s transformation from a workers’ state to a capitalist state

5. The common and different features of state capitalism and a workers’ state

6. A further consideration of Stalinist society, economics and politics

7. The Russian economy and the law of value

8. Russian economy and the capitalist crisis

9. The imperialist expansion of Russia

10. The class struggle in Russia

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