David Rikardo i Karl Marks v ikh obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskikh izsledovaniiakh. Opyt kritiko-ekonomicheskago izsledovaniiakh (David Ricardo and Karl Marx and their Socioeconomic Researches)

S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Tipografiia A. A. Porokhovshchikova, 1897. Hardcover. Third edition; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [3], 4-546, [2]; rebound in green cloth over boards; gilt title in English to spine; a few small rubbed spots to cloth along spine; previous owner's name to first blank leaf; faint remnants of an erased, penciled note to title page; very good condition.Originally published in 1885, "David Ricardo and Karl Marx and their Socioeconomic Researches" was an expanded version of Nikolai Ziber's (1844 - 1888) dissertation on Marx and Ricardo, which he had written in the 1870s. In it, he expounded with approval Marx's basic economic theory and the work would meet with a favorable reception from Marx himself. A forerunner of the Legal Marxists of the 1890s, Nikolai Ziber's ideas on transitioning from a developed Capitalist economy to Socialism would be instrumental in propagating Marx's economic theories in the Russian intellectual circles. With his interpretation of Marxism differing completely from that of the early Narodniks, Ziber would lay the groundwork for the "traditional" Marxism of Lenin and his circle.