Marx Went Away--But Karl Stayed Behind

by Caroline Humphrey

Book Overview

When it appeared in 1983, Caroline Humphrey'sKarl Marx Collectivewas the first detailed study of the Soviet collective farm system. Through careful ethnographic work on two collective farms operated in Buryat communities in Siberia, the author presented an absorbing--if dispiriting--account of the actual functioning of a planned economy at the local level. Now this classic work is back in print in a revised edition that adds new material from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472096761
• ISBN13: 9780472096763
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 599 Pages