A Critique of Soviet Economics is a work of Marxist–Leninist political economy written by Mao Zedong.
First published in 1967, the book is regarded as an early polemic of the Sino-Soviet split which emerged in the late 1950s and the 1960s.
[1] The book was reissued in English translation in the name A Critique of Soviet Economics by the Monthly Review Press in 1977.
[2] In 1995, Deng Liqun, after six systematic collations, made the Transcript of Talks on Reading the Political Economy: A Textbook of Soviet, and in 1998, the State Historical Society of the People's Republic of China published Mao Zedong's Notes and Talks on Reading Socialist Political Economy (Chinese: 毛泽东读社会主义政治经济学批注和谈话) under the name of study materials for state historical research, of which Deng Liqun's Transcript is the main part.
In A Critique of Soviet Economics, Chinese leader Mao criticizes the economic views of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, arguing that the Soviet Union's collectivization of agriculture by means of state expropriation represented a "rightist deviation" by substituting the action of the state for the grass-roots action of the peasant masses.