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August 31, 2022 39 mins

This episode is part three to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923.  Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free.

Part Three discusses the development of the relations between the party and the masses towards the end of and after the civil war, the ideological struggles internal to the party during this period, Party mistakes and rectification efforts led by Lenin, Lenin's "balance sheet," and the New Economic Policy.

You can find the pdf here, but this is one of the only volumes you can still find in paperback.

(This series was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast)

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