Growing Up in the USSR to Putin's Russia with Prof. Alexander Buzgalin

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Growing Up in the USSR to Putin's Russia with Prof. Alexander Buzgalin

Via The Real New Channel


Prof. Alexander Buzgalin was born two years after the death of Stalin,
He talks about growing up in the Soviet Union with Paul Jay on
Reality Asserts Itself.

Bio

"Alexander Buzgalin (Aleksandr Vladimirovich Buzgalin) is a Russian Marxist. He is a professor at Moscow State Universityand the coordinator of the Social Movement "Alternatives". He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Russian Social Forums.

At Moscow State University he is on the Faculty of Economics, and is the Chair of Economic Theory and Political Economy. He is chief editor of "Alternatives" quarterly journal, head of the Center (research group) on "Knowledge Economy" Department of Political Economics, Head of Socio-Economics Department of Political Economics and Center "Knowledge Society." Director of the Institute of Socio-Economics Moscow Finance and Law University, member of the Editorial Board of a number of domestic and international journals, etc. Buzgalin is 1st Deputy Chairman of the Standing Organizing Committee of the Moscow Economic Forum; Coordinator of Polit-Ekonomy Association of the CIS countries; 1st Deputy Chairman of the Public Movement "Education for All."

He is the author of more than 350 publications, including 26 monographs and more than 100 articles published in Russian scientific journals (on "Economic Issues", "Problems of Philosophy".)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buzgalin

Published on Jul 11, 2018

Part 1

21:01 minutes

Success and Mutation in the Soviet Union

Part 2

"Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says the threat of European fascism propelled
the militarization and bureaucratization of the USSR" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 12, 2018

12:17 minutes

Communism and Consumerism

Part 3

"Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says that “market fetishism”, the hunger for commodities,
became a major obstacle to building socialism" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 12, 2018

18:45 minutes

Turning Power into Money, the End of the Soviet Union

Part 4

"Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says that many Communist Party leaders supported Gorbachev’s perestroika reforms,
but what they really wanted, was to drop restrictions on accumulating great wealth" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 15, 2018

17:19 minutes

“I Returned from Vacation to Find the Soviet Union had Collapsed”

Part 5

"Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says that he returned from a vacation in the countryside to find Gorbachev was arrested,
Yeltsin was leader and the Soviet Union was no more" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 15, 2018

17:00 minutes

Shock Without the Therapy: A New Russia is Born in Chaos and Plunder

Part 6

"Prof. Alexander Buzgalin says the collapse of the Soviet Union was followed by the rise of billionaire oligarchs
as the “free market” led to the impoverishment of the people" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 18, 2018

19:15 minutes

Putin is Anointed King, but Big Capital has the Real Power

Part 7

"Prof. Aleksandr Buzgalin says after the chaotic ‘90’s, the Russian oligarchs needed a stronger central state
to defend their class interests, but Putin’s individual power should not be exaggerated" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 19, 2018

18:03 minutes

Is Putin’s Rule a Dictatorship?

Part 8

"Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says while Putin heads a powerful state, this is not a system of one man rule;
more than 100 billionaires and a stratum of top bureaucrats have political power" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 21, 2018

13:30 minutes

Why is Putin so Popular When People Are so Poor?

Part 9

"Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says under the slogans liberal democracy and market capitalism was delivered chaos and crime; Putin stands for traditional Russian values and culture, social order and making Russia great again" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 23, 2018

23:48 minutes

Why Does the West Hate Putin?

Part 10

"Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says the West doesn’t like Putin defying the American world order,
but this does not make Russia a progressive country" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 25, 2018

18:46 minutes

Finishing up the interview series ...

Many Russians Think Climate Change is Propaganda to Weaken Their Economy

Part 11

"Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says Russian oligarchs find an oil based economy
too profitable to consider transitioning away from it" ...

TheRealNews
Published on Jul 27, 2018

9:09 minutes





Finally ...

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Socialism

Part 12

"Alexandr Buzgalin says the conditions for socialism did not exist in the 1920’s but now they do,
but there will be many zigs and zags getting there" ...

Published on Jul 28, 2018

18:52 minutes