Very interesting lecture by Prof. Grover Furr (he’s written Khrushchev Lied among others) imo. Less so as an explanation for the mechanics or even processes of the USSRs destruction, but as a thorough, rightful trashing of Gorbatchev and Khrushchev and scientific rehabilitation of Stalin.
Also check out the ICSS if you’re interested in lectures like this. Afaik you can participate live on Zoom if you catch them early enough and join in on the Q&A sections.
To be fair, in the recording I linked above, they said at some point the Zoom limit of 100 people was reached and they said they still had people trying to join. Also there were a few younger comrades in the Q@A.
Unfortunately that’s par for the course in Marxist academia. Academic careers take forever and Marxist academia wasn’t really able to reproduce itself since the 90s. The very young aren’t at that level yet, so the pool is just terribly small. Also most younger Marxists have a tendency to somewhat scoff at more academic and scientific education from my experience.
Also, as with all older comrades I’ve met, they’re horrible at playing the new medias due to their age and own experiences. They desperately need younger comrades to get their shit up to the 21st century in terms of marketing, etc.