The Russian Marxist Yevgeni Preobrazhensky drew up one of the most sophisticated blueprints for building a socialist economy in an underdeveloped country like Russia. Stalin’s terror silenced Preobrazhensky, but his writings are now being rediscovered.

Born in 1886, Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky was a Russian revolutionary from his teenage years. Like so many of that generation, he was eventually murdered in Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge, after playing a leading role in the debates about how to construct a socialist economic system in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.

Preobrazhensky was the author of numerous works, the best known of which are 1919’s The ABC of Communism, coauthored with another leading Bolshevik, Nikolai Bukharin, and The New Economics from 1926. Preobrazhensky’s w

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