A Textbook issued by the Economics Institute of the
Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R

This textbook on Political Economy, prepared by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., was first published in the U.S.S.R. in 1954. Regarding political economy as the science of the laws of development of the relations of production in human society, it deals not only with the capitalist economic system but also with pre- capitalist economic relations and, in considerable detail, with the economics of socialism. In their Foreword the authors stress that their aim is not dogmatic but scientific, and that they would welcome discussion and critical comments by all readers.

POLITICAL ECONOMY

A Textbook issued by the Institute of
Economics the Academy of Sciences
of the U.S.S.R

1957
LAWRENCE & WISHART
LONDON

This Soviet textbook on POLITICAL ECQNOMY was first published in Moscow in 1954. A second revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1955, and a third edition is in preparation. The present translation has been made from the second Russian edition, and edited by C. P. Dutt and Andrew Rothstein.

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Jarrold and Sons Ltd., Norwich

Transcription: Socialist Truth in Cyprus-London Bureaux, November 2005