The New Great Depression?

Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:55:47 +0100
Ryszard Stemplowski (ryszard@stemplowski.demon.co.uk)

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The Great Depression Revisited

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Ryszard Stemplowski, Panstwowy socjalizm w realnym kapitalizmie: = Chile w roku 1932, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 1996, p

Ryszard Stemplowski, Panstwowy socjalizm = w realnym kapitalizmie: Chile w roku 1932, Wydawnictwo TRIO, = Warszawa 1996, p.450, in Polish
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State-Socialism in Real Capitalism: Chile in the = year 1932
( Table of Contents )

Chapter One: The antecedents: conflicts, reforms, = crises, p. 15

The economic and social structure; political = aspirations of the middle class groups; political and economic = conflicts; the military reformers in 1924-25; Constitution of 1925; = conflicts and reforms under authoritarian governments; the Great = Depression; the economic and political crisis.

Chapter Two: Chronology of the Socialist Republic: people and = events, p. 47

Chapter Three: State-socialism: inspirations and ideas, p. = 99

"Plan Dávila"; Dávila's = inspirations; "Plan Lagarrigue"; Lagarrigue's inspirations; = Proclamation by the Revolutionary General Staff; Juntas' first = pronouncement; "Thirty Points" of the Nueva Acción = Pública; a declaration by a member of the Junta; a circular = letter in the Ministry of Defence; programmatic declarations of the = revolutionary leaders; first decrees get mentioned; programmatic = declarations after the ousting of Grove and Matte; more decrees get = mentioned; other declarations; concluding remarks.

Chapter Four: Economic policy: decrees and credits, p. = 141

Export policy; import policy; regulations of the = manufacturing industry; steering the production of and trading in the = basic commodities; stimulating production activities; customs and tax = policies; civil law provisions and credit in the domestic market; = foreign exchange policy; monetary policy; concluding remarks.

Chapter Five: International conditions: market and = military-political power, p.177

Foreign trade and foreign assets in Chile; markets for = copper and nitrates not under government controls; diplomatic = interventions and getting the gold back; alien activities and the fiasco = of the foreign exchange deposits policy; tackling the foreign monopoly = of petroleum supply and the foreign withholding of the supply; British, = US, and German diplomacies, and the use of a force problem; decree on = the General Commissariat, and foreign objections; foreign diplomats vis = a vis communism as a criterion; USA and its conditions for the = diplomatic recognition; United Kingdom and its conditions for the = diplomatic recognition; Germany and its conditions for the diplomatic = recognition; businesspeople and the US, UK and German diplomats; = concluding remarks.

Chapter Six: Public opinion: frustrations and expectations, p. = 279

Political agitation; communists; Catholic Church; big = landowners; "white guard" activities; "strike of the crossed arms"; = socialist organisations; other parties and organisations; trade unions; = civil servants', engineers', bankers', and medical doctors' = associations; women; students; Supreme Court judges; military officers; = Santiago press; reactions to the ousting of Grove and Matte; one = perception of socialism; censorship; industrialists; conservatives' = conferences; fascists; parliamentary system as a topic for the debate; = Acción Revolucionaria Socialista; socialist organisations = before the electoral campaign; agricultural workers and los = Mapuches; the "responsible" politicians; concluding remarks.

Chapter Seven: Conclusion: crisis, State-Socialism, capitalism, p. = 365

Assertive economic policy; redistributive function; = new laws; the rule of law in foreign relations; political mobilisation = of middle class groups; economic nationalism; socialism in capitalism. =

Bibliography, p. 411

Index, p. 437

When he was writing the book, Ryszard Stemplowski, LLM = PhD, was a research fellow at the Institute of History, Polish Academy = of Sciences, Warsaw

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