The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the second part of a three-part series over the book "Socialism Betrayed" by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny. This class specifically highlights the ideological differences between Bukharin, Trotsky, and Stalin in the early years of the Soviet Union. We hope you learn something new!
Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information
Literature Used In This Class:
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Roger Keeran and Thoms Kenny
https://valleysunderground.files.word...
Recommended Literature:
The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...
The New Economic Policy by V.I. Lenin (1921)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Recommended Viewing:
Mission to Moscow by Michael Curtiz (1943)
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
0:31 Reading 1
5:06 Context of the NEP
6:16 Ideological seeds? (Q&A)
7:33 Kulaks? (Q&A)
9:29 Factionalism? (Q&A)
12:26 Reading 2
15:55 Lenin on the NEP? (Q&A)
19:02 Trotsky's role (Q&A)
20:11 Reading 3
32:11 Softening of class struggle
32:36 People change roles
34:14 Trotsky's Amalgams
35:00 Foster's Russia in 1924
35:26 Short vs. Long Term NEP
36:44 Marxism & the National Question
37:13 Other CPSU Leaders? (Q&A)
39:19 The Kulak Issue
40:25 China & Concluding Remarks
