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Economic History of the Soviet Union

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Why Study Marx?
1:35
The Soviet Union: An Experiment in Marxism
2:57
Lessons from the Soviet Union
1:10
Stages of Central Planning and Marxism in the Soviet Union
5:33
Lessons for Public versus Private Ownership
3:37
Introduction to the Labor Theory of Value
1:33
Labor as the Source of Property Rights
1:06
Subjective Value and Useful Labor
2:11
Marx's Exploitation Theory and Economics of Scale
3:51
Prices, Wages, and Planning
2:10
From Marx to Lenin
0:52
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
2:51
Planning to Plan
1:44
Corporatism: State Capitalism
1:45
Engels, Marx, and Lenin on Planning
3:43
The Bolshevik Vision
3:22
Prerequisites to a Utopian Society
2:09
Transformation to a Worker State
2:15
Spiritual and Historical Outcomes of Common Ownership
2:32
Introduction to the Russian Revolution
5:50
War Communism
2:03
Bolshevism and the Planned Economy
1:45
Money and Banking Under Lenin
2:57
Lenin's First Five Year Plan
2:17
Learning from Mistakes in Central Planning
2:00
Austrian Predictions About Socialist Russia
2:24
Soviet Lessons Learned About Labor and Democracy
1:56
Soviet Lessons Learned about Money, Capital and Interest
3:36
The Retreat from War Communism
2:45
Reintroducing Markets to Encourage Production
1:43
What was the New Economic Policy?
2:47
Competition Between the State and Private Sector
2:14
The Scissors Crisis
2:34
Response to the Scissors Crisis: Rationalization of the Economy
1:42
Imbalance in Crop Prices and the Government Response
2:19
Nationalization of Industry and Shortages in Industrialized Sectors
3:18
Inevitability of Stalinism
2:05
Opposition to Stalinism Within the Communist Left
1:20
Opposition from Democratic Centralists and 'The Worker's Opposition'
1:47
The Left Opposition
1:55
Stalin and the Party Line
2:57
Bukharin Turns on Trotsky
1:26
Conspiracy and Fear Buy-in to the Party Line
1:31
Trotsky on the Party and Stalinism
5:54
Stalin the Moderate
4:16
What Forced Collectivization?
4:30
Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain
1:33
Chaos in Central Planning Resource Shortages and Waste
1:35
Peasant Revolts in Response to Forced Collectivization
1:08
Consequences of Forced Collectivization
1:06
Could Socialism Survive the Crisis?
1:41