Soviet Communism

David Reisman ()
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Chapter Chapter 13 in Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 2022, pp 239-264 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Initially the Webbs were sceptical. The Soviet system was revolutionary and undemocratic. By 1930, disillusioned with the soporific Labour Party and pessimistic about the inability of market economics to restore full employment, they became enthusiastic converts. They admired the efficiency of Soviet planning, the quasi-Fabian leadership of self-effacing experts and technocrats, the sense of national purpose and classless fellowship that had been the result of the expropriation of land and capital. In 1932 and 1934 they travelled to Russia to see the successful ‘promised land’, the solidaristic ‘new civilisation’ for themselves. They may have been too quick to believe what they were told or to dismiss the excrescences of Stalinist autocracy as necessary teething troubles.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10008-6_13

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