<p>First published in English in 1926 this work by Nikolai Bukharin a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials expands upon Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism. </p><p>Offering a Marxist interpretation of sociology this reissue is important not only from a sociological and economic perspective but is also extremely valuable as a socio-historical document of contemporary thought in the Soviet Union in the years following the Bolshevik revolution. </p>