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as well, as more surplus was extracted from them for industrial capital investment. Real wages for both regular workers and managers plummeted despite the growing wage differential.
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that the Soviet Union had to accomplish in a decade what England had taken centuries to do in terms of economic development in order to be prepared for an invasion from the West.
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in nature, the Soviet Union would have to be the agent of primitive capital accumulation to rapidly develop the economy. The concept was proposed originally as a means to
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was introduced, reductions to piece work production relations were made and mass rehabilitations resulted in the dissolution of most of the Gulag.
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production relations were introduced wholesale. Soviet penal policy also tightened, causing a significant growth of inmates in the
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of 1926-7 and the alternative strategies developed by Trotsky in his later works such as "
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Beyond publications and policy debates, the application of this theory affected the
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through extracting surplus from the peasantry to finance the industrial sector.
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Counterpart to the process of the primitive accumulation of capital
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This theory was criticized politically and associated with
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to accumulate resources necessary for the growth of the
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Index

Soviet Union
New Economic Policy
primitive accumulation of capital
early stages and development
capitalist economies
Soviet economy
underdeveloped
agrarian
industrialize
Russian economy
Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Communist Academy
New Economic Policy
peasant
surplus product
industry
foreign trade monopoly held by the state
price control
price scissors
Leon Trotsky
Left Opposition
Joseph Stalin
Ernest Mandel
Left Opposition
United Opposition
The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
The Transitional Programme (1938)
working class
Piece work
Gulag

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