By André Mommen
This booklet analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jenő) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist fiscal concept in addition to the impact he exercised on Stalin’s international coverage and during the Comintern at the foreign communist circulate. throughout the Hungarian Councils’ Republic of 1919 Varga was once a kind of mainly answerable for reworking the economic climate into one huge commercial and agrarian enterprise lower than country authority. After the autumn of the progressive regime that 12 months, Varga joined the Hungarian Communist celebration, quickly and then, he could turn into one of many Comintern’s prime economists, predicting the inevitable obstacle of the capitalist system.
Varga grew to become the Soviet Union’s reliable propagandist. As an monetary expert he may propose the Soviet govt on German reparation funds and, not like Stalin, believed that the capitalist nation will be capable of plan post-war financial restoration, which contradicted Stalin’s international coverage approach and resulted in his shame. hence by way of the start of the chilly battle in 1947, Varga was once discredited, yet allowed to maintain a minor educational place. After Stalin’s demise in 1953 he reappeared as a well-respected economist whose political impact had still waned.
In this research Mommen unearths how Stalin’s view on foreign capitalism and inter-imperialist rivalries was once profoundly prompted through debates within the Comintern and by means of Varga’s inspiration of the overall problem of capitalism. even though Stalin liked Varga’s cleverness, he by no means depended on him while making his strategic international coverage judgements. This was once truly verified in August 1939 with Stalin’s pact with Hitler, and in 1947, together with his refusal to take part in Marshall’s ecu restoration Plan.
This e-book can be of curiosity to a large choice of scholars and researchers, together with these focusing on the background of financial concept, Soviet stories, diplomacy, and eu and chilly conflict background.
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