Hello everynyan, we’re finishing This Soviet World.
Week 16 we are reading the last chapter, 16: “New Men Emerge.” And discussing the book as a whole
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That’s a great breakdown! Ideally I can trim it to 12 weeks by the end of it. Section 1 I am considering just having Why Marxism and General Rules of Independent Study alone, for example, and section 2 would pretty much just have Karl Marx. I really don’t want to do this, but I could swap back to Stalin and Mao for philosophy to trim it, but I really like Cornforth there. Section 4 could just be Nia Frome’s work. The rest of the sections could see similar trimmings.
This is where I am debating a microlist, knowing it would compete with the main list, or a propaganda pamphlet, or just having one trimmed list and perhaps a compository of recommended works in place of an advanced list for future studies. I honestly have no clue at this point, and the reading group will hopefully give me the experience and feedback I need to decide on a direction.