Please enjoy the first part of a two-part PSMLS series on comrade Joseph Stalin's outstanding 1937 publication titled Mastering Bolshevism. This pamphlet goes into detail about how to build and strengthen party cadre and is a breath of fresh air when compared to the infectious individualism of our time.
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Literature Used In This Class:
Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...
http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html
Literature Mentioned In This Class:
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
Communism Versus Fascism by William Z. Foster (1941)
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...
Felix Dzerzhinsky: A Biography (several authors) (1988)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/rozal...
Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle (1987)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/dougl...
https://ia801606.us.archive.org/28/it...
Stalin: Man of Contradiction by Kenneth Cameron (1987)
http://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-cont...
Mission to Moscow by Joseph Davies (1945)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzWt...
Soviet Anti-Semitism: The Big Lie by Moses Miller (1949)
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/vie...
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...
Theory as a Guide to Action by Earl Browder (1939)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course (ch. 12, sec. 4) Liquidation of the Remnants of the Bukharin-Trotsky Gang of Spies, Wreckers and Traitors to the Country.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar....
Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens (1994)
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpre...
Blood Lies by Grover Furr (2014)
http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/blood...
Recommended Literature:
The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (1848)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-...
Ending Song:
Anthem of the USSR by Paul Robeson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6q_...
PSMLS Website:
http://peoplesschool.org/contact/
Party of Communists USA Website:
https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/
Timecode Key:
(Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Reading (intro & ch. 1)
5:37 Alexei Rykov
7:11 The Moscow Trials
9:37 Zinoviev & Kamenev? (Q&A)
12:38 Say no to anarchism
13:14 Zinoviev's politics? (Q&A)
14:59 Trotskyites today? (Q&A)
17:06 Origins of wreckers
18:22 Kirov's murder? (Q&A)
18:56 Zinoviev & Kamanev cont.
20:10 Reading (ch. 1)
25:15 Strengthening vigilance? (Q&A)
28:31 Capitalist invaders
30:36 Context of the pamphlet
31:18 Contemporary application? (Q&A)
32:48 Reading (ch. 1 cont.)
35:12 International perspective
35:39 Role of Yezhov? (Q&A)
37:31 Reading (ch. 2)
43:59 Stalin's dialectical analysis
44:49 Saboteurs & spies
46:02 Dizzy with success
47:06 Modern capitalist encirclement
49:03 Reading recommendations
52:07 Learn from the past
52:22 Significance of Africa
52:54 More strengthening vigilance? (Q&A)
55:23 Unfounded accusations
55:49 Fraud, Famine, & Fascism
56:11 Ludo Martens on Trotsky
56:51 Yezhov & Yagoda
59:06 Stalin: Man of Contradiction
1:00:00 Concluding remarks
1:02:24 Ending
