State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- In Memoriam: Vincent Kelly Pollard (1944-2010) -- Foreword -- 1. State Capitalist Analysis-Before the Russian Revolution, in Reaction to Stalin's Consolidation of Power, and after the Cold War -- 2. State Capitalism versus Communism: What Happened in the USSR? -- 3. Labor, Exploitation and Capitalism in Russia before and after 1991 -- 4. The 'Russian Question' and the U.S. Left -- 5. Planning and the Fate of Democracy: State, Capital, and Governance in Post-Independence India -- 6. What Happened to Chinese Communism: The Transition from State Feudalism to State Capitalism -- 7. Labor Representation and Organization under State Capitalism in China -- 8. A Consideration of China's Incomplete Retreat from State Capitalism -- 9. Chinese 'Develop the West' Campaigns and their Environmental Impacts: The Post-Socialist Condition in China -- 10. State Capitalist Aspirations and the Two-Stage Theory of Revolution in the Philippines -- Index.