Szymanski Albert. Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union

London: Zed Press, 1979. — 240 p. — ISBN 0 905762 35 5; 0 905762 36 3The Nature of the Soviet Union: A Crucial Question
Assumptions and Motivations Underlying This Book
Summary of This Book
A Note on SourcesWhat is a Socialist Society?Criteria for Categorizing Social Formations
Capitalism
Ownership, Control and Day-to-Day Operation
Class and Social Class
Ruling Classes and Power Elites
Mechanisms of Popular Control
Forms of Socialism
Transformation of Socialist SocietiesThe Role of Market ForcesProfit and the Plan
Commodity Markets and Prices
Producer Goods Markets
The Labour MarketSocial ClassesThe Distribution of Material Rewards
Tendencies Towards the Formation of Social ClassesPolitical ProcessesThe Formal Political Structure
Public Debate and Public Opinion Formation
Popular Participation in State Bodies
The Communist Party
Social Background of the Leaders
Structural Determinants of State Policies
Summary and ConclusionSoviet Foreign Relations: The Logic of Trade and the Uses of the MilitaryDefinitions
Soviet Foreign Trade
The Soviet MilitarySoviet Relations with Eastern EuropeTrade Relations
Economic Assistance
Co-ordinated Planning
Joint Enterprises Today
Economic Growth
Economic Relations Before and After the Mid-1950s
The Break with Yugoslavia
Intervention in Czechoslovakia
Hungary, 1956
The Autonomy of Eastern Europe TodaySoviet Relations with the Non-socialist Third WorldEconomic Assistance
Economic Assistance: The Case of India
Ownership and Control of Enterprises
Trade: The Case of India
Political Interventions in Third World Countries
Military Assistance
Bangladesh
Cambodia
Angola
The Horn of AfricaSoviet Relations with the Socialist Third WorldChina
CubaThe Soviet Union: Retrospect and ProspectThe Class Nature of the U.S.S.R.
Stalin
The Origins of Soviet Hegemonism
The Future of the Soviet Union
Implications for the World StruggleBibliography
Soviet Domestic Political Economy and Social Structure
Soviet Foreign Relations
Index