Session 1
Socialism, Revolution and War 1914-1921
“The International Character of the Russian Revolution”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1943/fnc/nc01.htm
The Bolsheviks Come to Power (excerpt) Alexander Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks Come to Power.pdf
The Bolsheviks In Power (excerpt) Alexander Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks in Power Alexander Rabinowitch.pdf
Chronology
Chronology Russian 1921-1929.pdf
Chronology International 1889-1924.pdf
Session 2
Trotsky’s New Course and the Industrialisation Debate 1922-1929
“The NEP and Bureaucratism” and all chapters upto and including “The Triumph of Stalin”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1943/fnc/nc02.htm
Session 3
Stalin's Industrial Revolution 1930-1941
Read excerpts from Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialisation by Donald Filtzer
Session 4
Socialism after 1941
“The Right Wing is Crushed” and all remaining chapters
http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1943/fnc/nc08.htm
“The End of Socialism” (excerpt)
The End of Socialism Max Shachtman (excerpt).pdf
https://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1954/xx/deutscher.htm
“The Fate of the Russian Revolution” (excerpt)