A collection of papers reflecting a wide range of thought, from the history of Russian economic thought to the possible ramifications of changes in contemporary Soviet economic policy with respect to the problems created by a functioning "capitalist-style" market.

Part 1 History of economic ideas: three early Russian economists; M.I.Tugan-Baranovsky. Part 2 Economic history: war communism; Lenin and the new economic policy; Trotsky, markets and East European reforms; the end of NEP; the Soviet peasantry in the war; industry under Khrushchev; Russian modernization. Part 3 Economics - east and west: planning; markets? yes but...; Friedman, markets and planning - a comment; the fragmentionist debate; Marxism and "really existing socialism"; planning and markets; "feasible socialism" revisited; Soviet reforms and Western neo-classical economics. Part 4 Contemporary USSR: has Soviet growth ceased?; labour incentives; Soviet agriculture; the contribution of imported technology to Soviet growth; the defence burden; is within-system reform possible?; Soviet economic reform - progress and frustrations.