ABSTRACT
The revolutionary capture of a backward economy and its subsequent isolation from the advanced industrial countries created theoretical and policy tensions among Marxists that produced easily understood stress fractures in the body of inherited doctrine. The successful Bolshevik Revolution forced Marxist revolutionaries to attempt the rehabilitation of the Russian economy and its accelerated industrialization in order to survive. That clearly implied that the imposed revolutionary “relations of production,” which transformed the old property rights and patterns of distribution, would exercise determinate influence over the development of the prevailing primitive “forces of production.”
