The Preobrazhensky Papers. Archival Documents and Materials Volume I: 1886–1920.

Known in the West up until now predominantly through the publication of a limited number of his economic writings, E.A. Preobrazhensky has gone down in history primarily as a theorist of the ‘transition period’ in socialist economics and as a prominent victim of Stalin's purges. A new series of his collected works, however, publishing for the first time large quantities of material from his diaries, letters and newspaper work, looks set to transform his reputation, and underline his stature as one of the most original and sympathetic figures produced by the Bolshevik Revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]