This book presents a narrative of one of the more interesting utopian experiments in comparative political and economic history: the first decade of the Soviet

An assessment of the first Soviet economic system, comparing programmes with outsomes, and theory with practice.

Perestroika was acclaimed in the west but brought empty shelves in the east. Why Perestroika Failed argues that this was inevitable because it was not based on

A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and