April 17-19, 2000
A. Workers' paradise or workers' prison?
B. Workers' state or workers' state?
C. Chronology of the development of the Soviet experiment: material realities
D. Social classes in the USSR--where do workers fit in?
II. Production
A. Incentive schemes
B. Stakhanovism
III. Politics
A. Role of the Communist party
B. Workplace authority
C. Conflicts and resistance
IV. Culture
A. Whose culture? World? Workers? Socialist? Russian?
B. Culture as investment
C. Culture as consumption
V. What happens to class in the classless society?