'One of the true geniuses of the Russian Revolution" - Kevin Murphy, Jacobin First published in 1921, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, expands upon Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism. Offering a Marxist interpretation of sociology, this edition is important not only from a sociological and economic perspective, but is also extremely valuable as a socio-historical document of contemporary thought in the Soviet Union in the years following the Bolshevik revolution. 'History would have turned out differently if Nikolai Bukharin, a key figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and his more progressive ideas had been at the center of Soviet society.' - The Washington Post 'Bukharin's analysis is still in advance of much contemporary discussion... Without a development of his arguments, albeit a critical one, the modern world cannot be understood.' - Michael Haynes, Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism Praise 'It is Bukharin's ghost, the indelible memory of his post-Marxian philosophy and his remarkable prevision of the Nazi-Soviet rapprochement and the inevitable deterioration of Stalin's Russia into proto-Fascism, which remains to haunt the Communist world.' - The New York Times 'History would have turned out differently if Nikolai Bukharin, a key figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and his more progressive ideas had been at the center of Soviet society.' - The Washington Post 'Bukharin's analysis is still in advance of much contemporary discussion... Without a development of his arguments, albeit a critical one, the modern world cannot be understood.' - Michael Haynes, Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism 'The enduring body of B