3 Review(s)

A Critique of Soviet Economics can usefully be read from several closely interwoven perspectives: (1) as a crucial initial summing up by Mao of what the Soviet model was and what it implied for China; (2) as a strong defense of the Great Leap Forward from the perspectives of uninterrupted revolution; (3) as a pathbreaking examination of the principles of Soviet political economy and of several key aspects of the Russian revolutionary experience, particularly the years, under Stalin's leadership.... Mao's real purpose was to think through problems facing the Chinese Revolution in terms of the perspective offered by a careful examination of aspects of the Soviet experience. - James Peck