Late Marx and the Russian Road : Marx and \'The Peripheries of Capitalism\'

Contents: Introduction. I. Late Marx: 1. Late Marx: Gods and craftsmen/Teodor Shanin. 2. Marx and revolutionary Russia/Haruki Wada. 3. Late Marx: continuity, contradiction and learning/Derek Sayer and Philip Corrigan. II. The Russian road: 1. Marx-Zasulich correspondence: letters and drafts. 2. David Ryazanov: the discovery of the drafts. 3. Karl Marx: a letter to the editorial board of Otechestvennye Zapiski. 4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 5. Karl Marx: Confessions. 6. Marx after capital: a biographical note/Derek Sayer. 7. The Russian scene: a biographical note (1867-1883)/Jonathan Sanders. III. The Russian revolutionary tradition 1850 to 1890: 1. Nikolai Chernyshevskii: selected writings. 2. The people’s will: basic documents and writings. 3. Marxism and the vernacular revolutionary traditions/Teodor Shanin. Index.

“Late Marx and the Russian Road addresses in a new way Marx’s attitudes to societies we describe today as ‘developing’ or ‘peripheral’ and to social and socialist theories which originated in them and which reflect their particularities. It argues that the intensive research coupled with public silence during the last decade of Marx’s life represented a new, theoretical, ‘post-capital’ threshold. This phase corresponded--not accidentally--with intensive studies of Russia and contacts with its theorists and revolutionaries. Russia was the first “developing society’ in the sense accepted today, and its social and intellectual context were to produce by the turn of the century the first wave of ‘modernization’ theories and strategies, as well as Leninism. Included in this work are the translations of Marx’s notes from the late 1880s, hailed as one of the most important ‘finds’ of the last century.”