A Short View of Russia

by John Maynard Keynes

Overview

Keynes and his wife, Lydia Lopokova, visited Russia in September 1925 soon after their marriage, he as official representative of Cambridge University at the bicentennial celebrations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Following the visit, he wrote the three articles which were later published as (A Short View of Russia'. The articles first appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum, 10, 17 and 25 October 1925, and were reprinted by the Hogarth Press as one of the series of Hogarth Essays in December of the same year. A shortened version appeared in Essays in Persuasion. Keynes's visit to Russia was a defining moment for him, setting him off on a track of thinking entering on the conflict between economic efficiency and moral efficiency'. Keynes started to use the phrase (love of money' to describe the psychology of capitalist civilization. This essay was penned before the Stalin dictatorship had taken hold. It characterizes Soviet Communism as both a religion and an economic system.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158740374
Publisher:	Nation and Athenaeum
Publication date:	10/29/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	414 KB

About the Author

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and the founder of modern macroeconomics theory. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots.