Topics

1. “Left” and “Right” Totalitarian Blueprints
    
2. Marx and Marxist Dictatorship: Dialectical Materialism, Manifesto, and Critique of Gotha Program
    
3. The First World War: America Enters the War for Democracy—April 1917
    
4. Lenin Collaborates with Imperial Germany and Overthrows Russia’s (Democratic) Provisional Government—October/November 1917
    
5. Lenin’s Armistice and Brest-Litovsk Treaty with Imperial Germany Betrays Russia and the Western Allies—March 1918
    
6. The End of the First World War: America Saves the Western Allies, Eastern Europe, and (Soviet) Russia from German Victory—1918
    
7. Lenin’s Totalitarian Template, Cheka Terror, Civil War, and the Rapallo Treaty—1917 to 1922
    
8. Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Recognition of the USSR and Stalin’s Broken Promises on the Path to the Second World War—1933 to 1939
    
9. Stalin’s Constitution of the USSR—December 1936 and American Naiveté