Private capital in the USSR. 2nd edition. Larin Yu.

Before readers is a book by the famous Soviet economist and publicist, one of the organizers of the State Planning Commission and the Supreme Council of the National Economy (Supreme Economic Council) Yuri Larina. The theme of the book is private capital in the USSR, and precisely in the form of a private capitalist industry, which the author separates from the private labor industry without the operation of someone else's labor.

In the book, material about the origin of private capital in the Soviet country during its formation is brought together, various types of initial capitalist accumulation are classified in the period 1921-1924; a picture of the role of private capital in agriculture, industry, trade, in the credit and monetary markets was given, taking into account the disguised forms of its activity as much as possible; Recommendations are given to reduce the elements of capitalism in the USSR, to supplant it by developing socialist elements of the economy.

The book widely used reports on private capital in the USSR made by commissions under various people's commissariats and institutions and transferred to the private capital commission, who worked under the chairmanship of G.K. Ordzhonikidze and with the participation of the author. Another source is the materials of court cases about economic crimes that were analyzed by the author, thanks to which he indicated the methods of flowing money from the state treasury into the pockets of the Nepmanov (often closely related to the state), largely similar to the modern mechanisms of leaving money from the state in favor of private individuals.

The book, first published in 1927 and became a bibliographic rarity, and today in many ways retains relevance. It is recommended to economists, historians, social scholars, political scientists, as well as a wide circle of readers who are interested in the history of economic thought in the USSR, the history and theory of Marxism and socialism.