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Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
June 8, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The fate of the Soviet Union still weighs heavily on the left. For liberals and the right the Soviet Union supposedly provides definitive proof that attempts to replace the ‘natural order’ of capitalism are bound to produce, not only horrendous suffering, but ultimate failure. The left must fully explain the Soviet Union if it is to develop a viable programme. Marxism alone provides the necessary method of analysis
Speaker: Jack Conrad, author
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1216/the-place-of-the-soviet-union-in-history/
Other recommended background reading:
– Hillel Ticktin: Origins of the crisis in the USSR
– Marcel van der Linden: Western Marxism and the Soviet Union
– Leon Trotsky: The revolution betrayed
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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__6xvTfPsRpm0XA7JzVcpIw