Summer 2019: 30 years of 1989: What was Stalinism in power?

β’ required / + recommended reading
recommended book: Isaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades (Verso, 1984) [ * essays included in book]
recommended background reading:
Spartacist League, Genesis of Pabloism (1972)
Week 1. The revolution betrayed | June 8, 2019
β’ Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going? (1936)
+ Trotsky, "Stalinism and Bolshevism" (1937)
+ Trotsky, letter to James P. Cannon of September 12, 1939
+ Trotsky, The USSR in War (1939)
Week 2. Stalinophilia and Stalinophobia | June 15, 2019
β’ Herbert Marcuse, 33 theses (1947)
β’ Shane Mage, "'Pure democracy' or political revolution in Eastern Europe?" excerpts from The Hungarian Revolution (1957) republished in Spartacist 30 (Autumn 1980) pp. 10-16
β’ Michael Harrington, "Marxism and democracy" (1981)
Week 3. Crisis of Stalinism | June 22, 2019
(Recommended resource: Isaac Deutscher internet archive)
β’ Isaac Deutscher, "Two Revolutions" (1950) *
β’ Deutscher, "Stalin, Mao and Korea" (1950)
β’ Deutscher, "Khrushchev on Stalin" (1956)
Week 4. Whither Communism? | June 29, 2019
β’ Deutscher, "Three trends in Communism" (1959)
β’ Deutscher, "From Stalin to Adam Smith" (1959)
β’ Deutscher, "The tragedy of the Polish Communist Party" (1958) *
β’ Deutscher, 3 articles on Eastern Europe (letter to Gomulka, dialogue with Brandler, conversation with Trygve Lie) *
Week 5. Maoism? | July 6, 2019
β’ Deutscher, "Three currents in Communism" (1964)
β’ Deutscher, "Maoism β its origin and outlook" (1964) *
β’ Deutscher, "Vietnam in perspective" (1965)
β’ Deutscher, "The meaning of the 'Cultural Revolution'" * and interview on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Week 6. 50 years of the USSR | July 13, 2019
β’ Deutscher, The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-67 (1967)
Week 7. Stalinism and the New Left | July 20, 2019
β’ Deutscher, "Marxism in our time" (1965) *
β’ Deutscher, "Marxism and the New Left" (1967)