Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Nikolai Bukharin's work has wide appeal to those interested in Soviet history and Marxist economics as well as to those concerned with theories of development and socialist economies.

Part 1 - The Theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 1. A General Theory of the State 2. The Necessity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 3. The Collapse of Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 4. Soviet Power as a Form of Proletarian Dictatorship Part 2 - The Economics of the Transition Period 5. The Structure of World Capitalism 6. Economics, State Power and War 7. The Collapse of the Capitalist System 8. The General Preconditions for the Building of Communism 9. Town and Country in the Process of Social Transformation 10. The Productive Forces, the Costs of the Revolution and the Technical Revolution 11. The General Organizational Forms of the Transition Period 12. The Systems of Production Control Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 13. The Economic Categories of Capitalism in the Transition Period 14. 'Non-Economic' Coercion in the Transition Period 15. The World Revolutionary Process and the World System of Communism Part 3 - Diagrammatic Tables relating to The Economics of the Transition Period