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[Online-course in two parts – read by Svetlana Manakova]
Conversations about the political party that changed the world, the lives of our ancestors, and ourselves.
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IN SOVIET TIMES THE HISTORY OF THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY WAS CANON,
behind which hid many very interesting events that remained in the shadows
In our conversations, we will try to shed light on the history of the party that turned the world upside down.
за которым пряталось множество преинтереснейших событий, оставшихся в тени. В наших беседах мы попробуем пролить свет на историю партии, которая перевернула мир.
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  • The Soviet Union in World War II
  • The Cold War and the Creation of NATO
  • Late Stalinism and the Repressions
  • The Society of "Developed Socialism"
  • The Crisis of the Collective Farm System
  • Perestroika and the Collapse of the USSR
  • Unlearned Lessons of History
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LATE BOLSHEVISM
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  • History of the Russian revolutionary movement
  • The state of society and the economy in the pre-revolutionary years
  • Attempts to seize power by the Bolsheviks: failures and successes
  • Dispossession of the kulaks, the "Great Terror," and other repressions
  • Foreign and domestic policy of the party
  • Debunking myths about the party
  • Results of the reign
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EARLY BOLSHEVISM
WORLD WAR II
This is a cycle of conversations—not about victory, but about the person caught in the midst of the most terrible war of the 20th century.
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Part I: The Genesis of Bolshevism
  1. Serfdom in the Russian Empire: Background, Formation, and Abolition
  2. The Revolutionary Movement in the Russian Empire at the Turn of the 20th Century
  3. Marxism and Bolshevism: Definitions and Distinctions
  4. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
  5. The First Party Congress Bolshevism: Illusions or a Pursuit of Power?
  6. The Second Party Congress
  7. The Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution
  8. The Third Party Congress
  9. Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin
  10. The Fourth Party Congress and the First Duma
  11. Stolypin’s Modernization and Reforms
  12. The Fifth Party Congress
  13. Party Financing: Funding the Revolution
  14. The Party During the Great War (WWI)
  15. The February Revolution

Part II: The Armed Seizure of Power
  1. The Return of Bolshevik Emigrés to the Russian Empire
  2. The Political Program of the Party
  3. The July Days: The Summer Uprising
  4. The Sixth Party Congress
  5. The Kornilov Affair
  6. The October Armed Seizure of Power
  7. Myths of October and the Course of the Coup

Securing and Consolidating Power
  1. The Constituent Assembly
  2. The First Bolshevik Decrees and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  3. Resistance to the October Revolution
  4. The Seventh Party Congress
  5. Forging the Leninist State
  6. The Civil War: Origins of Victory and Defeat
  7. The Execution of Nicholas Romanov, His Family, and Their Servants
  8. War Communism
  9. The Eighth Party Congress and the End of the First World War
  10. The Ninth Party Congress and the Crimean Catastrophe
  11. The Tenth Party Congress and the New Economic Policy (NEP)
  12. The Eleventh Party Congress and Lenin’s Testament
  13. The Twelfth Party Congress and the Legacy of Lenin’s Rule

Forging the Stalinist Empire
  1. The Thirteenth Party Congress and the Waning Influence of Trotsky
  2. The Fourteenth Party Congress and Stalinist Industrialization
  3. The Grain Procurement Crisis and Military Emigration
  4. The Fifteenth Party Congress
  5. The State of the Countryside on the Eve of Collectivization
  6. Collectivization: Implementation and Aftermath
  7. The Sixteenth Party Congress and the GULAG System
  8. The Seventeenth Party Congress: "The Congress of Victors"
  9. The Great Terror
  10. The Final Pre-War Party Congress
  11. Soviet-German Relations
  12. Prerequisites for World War II
  13. The Winter War (The Soviet-Finnish War)
  14. Pre-War Summary of Bolshevik Rule
  15. June 22, 1941
«EARLY BOLSHEVISM» PROGRAMM
Pre-war and War Period of the Bolshevik Party History
  1. The Bolshevik Party from its inception to the beginning of World War II: A brief analysis and conclusions.
  2. The Bolshevik Party during World War II.
  3. Political, economic, and social outcomes of the Bolshevik Party rule by the end of World War II.

The Beginning of the Cold War and the End of the Stalinist Era
  1. USSR international policy after the "Fulton Speech."
  2. The Marshall Plan and the creation of NATO, the testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb. The arms race.
  3. The Communist Party in the era of late Stalinism.
  4. The Korean War.
  5. The 19th Party Congress.
  6. The Communist Party in the era of late Stalinism (repetition).
  7. Stalin's death.

The Thaw and the processes hidden behind this definition
  1. The CPSU during the "Thaw" period, the creation of the Warsaw Pact Organization.
  2. The 20th Party Congress and the struggle against the cult of personality.
  3. The Hungarian Uprising.
  4. The Suez Crisis. USSR policy in Israel.
  5. The 21st Party Congress.
  6. The Space Program.
  7. The 22nd Party Congress.
  8. The Novocherkassk massacre.
  9. The Cuban Missile Crisis.
  10. The grain crisis.
  11. The 23rd Party Congress.
  12. The first bloodless removal of a party leader: the ousting of Khrushchev.

The Era of Stagnation
  1. The Kosygin reforms.
  2. Stagnation of the CPSU in the era of "developed socialism."
  3. The "Prague Spring."
  4. The 24th Party Congress.
  5. The introduction of passports for USSR citizens working on collective farms (kolkhozy).
  6. The 25th Party Congress.
  7. The ABM Treaty, SALT-I, and the Helsinki Accords.

The Decline of the Bolshevik Party
  1. The Soviet-Afghan War.
  2. "Olympics-80" and international policy in the final decade of the USSR.
  3. The 26th Party Congress.
  4. The series of funerals of General Secretaries (the "era of grand funerals" or "the race on hearses").
  5. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.
  6. The CPSU and "Perestroika."
  7. The 27th Party Congress.
  8. The Chernobyl disaster.
  9. The 28th Party Congress.
  10. Reasons for the collapse of the CPSU and the USSR.
  11. History of the Communist Party: Key lessons and conclusions.
«LATE BOLSHEVISM» PROGRAMM
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