A Critique of Soviet Economics

These writings of Mao Tse-tung, brought together here under the title A Critique of Soviet Economics, date from the period during and immediately after the Great Leap Forward, a time when the Chinese Revolution began to break decisively with the Soviet Union and its model of development. With the Great Leap, a distinctive Chinese road to socialism emerged. But it was a road paved with a decade of controversy over the course of China’s socialist development. At the heart of many of those disputes within the Chinese Communist Party was the question of the applicability of the Russian experience to…