Conference on USSR (20 08 2021)

- Opening of the conference • Buzgalin A.V., Director of the Center for Contemporary Marxist Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University, Professor of the Department of Political Economy, Moscow State University (Moscow) • Gronsky V.G., General Director of the Russian National Library (SPb) – Session 1. The USSR is no more: conceptualization of reasons. Part 1. Moderators: Bulavka-Buzgalina L.A., Kraus T. Reports • Kotz David, Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts (USA) The Demise of the USSR: Reasons and Lessons for a Future Socialism • Lane David, Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (UK) Responses in the West to the Fall of the USSR • Momdzhyan Karen Khachikovich, Head of the Department of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of History, Moscow State University (Moscow) Was Soviet society socialist? • Toshchenko Zhan Terent’evich, Chief Researcher of the Institute of