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The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
Lecture no. 7 from the course: Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems
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Taught by Professor Edward F. Stuart | 28 min
Why was Soviet communism doomed to failure? Beginning with the Bolshevik revolution, witness the birth and troubled development of communism in a country that was spectacularly ill-equipped to start a government from scratch. See why Marx never envisioned communism taking root in an illiterate, agrarian society and how the lack of economic experience in Soviet leadership created a spiral of disasters.
24 Lectures
1
Gorbachev’s Hello and the Soviet Goodbye
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of 31 min
2
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Keynes, and Friedman
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of 32 min
3
How to Argue GDP, Inflation, and Other Data
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of 31 min
4
British Revolution: Industry and Labor
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of 30 min
5
American Capitalism: Hamilton and Jefferson
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of 30 min
6
Utopian Socialism to Amana Microwave Ovens
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of 29 min
7
The Bolsheviks: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
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of 28 min
8
Soviet Planning and 1,000 Left-Foot Shoes
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of 28 min
9
Economic Consequences of European Peace
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of 29 min
10
How FDR and Keynes Tried to Save Capitalism
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of 29 min
11
Social Democracy in Europe
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of 31 min
12
Sweden’s Mixed Economy Model
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of 29 min
13
French Indicative Planning and Jean Monnet
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of 31 min
14
British Labour Party and National Health
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of 30 min
15
Social Welfare in Germany: Bismarck to Kohl
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of 30 min
16
Soviet Bloc: Conformity and Resistance
0
of 31 min
17
Two Germanies: A Laboratory in Economics
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of 28 min
18
The Soviet Union’s Fatal Failure to Reform
0
of 29 min
19
“Blinkered and Bankrupt” in Eastern Europe
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of 30 min
20
From Chairman Mao to the Capitalist Roaders
0
of 30 min
21
After Deng, China Privatizes and Globalizes
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of 32 min
22
Asian Tigers: Wealth and State Control
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of 32 min
23
European Union: Success or Failure?
0
of 32 min
24
Both Sides Now: Experiment in Slovenia
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of 34 min
