The making of a Marxist -- The making of a Bolshevik -- Economist of the Comintern (1920-8) -- Between Bukharin and Stalin (1928-30) -- The agrarian question -- In Berlin (1924-7) -- The general crisis of capitalism -- A depression of a special kind -- Surviving the Stalinist purges -- Two world...

"In this first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. He examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in...