[BEST OF] Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

[Originally released Jan 2018]

Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; known primarily for her ethnographic work on post-communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies.

She is the author of many books, including her latest "Red Hangover:Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism.

Kristen joins Brett to discuss the collapse of Soviet Communism and the human costs of the brutal transition to free market capitalism.

Topics Include: Women under communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the human costs of capitalism in Eastern Europe, current wealth inequality in the former Soviet Bloc, false equivalencies between the Nazis and the Soviets and the ideological role it serves, the rise of fascism in the wake of communisms collapse, socialist feminism, fallacies inherent in capitalist arguments, the ravages of neoliberalism, the future of socialism, and much, much more!

Outro Music: "Bent Life" by Aesop Rock (feat. C Rayz Walz)

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0:46.9	Welcome to revolutionary left radio I'm your host Anne Comrade Bredoche. Today
1:13.9	we have on doctor Kristen Godsee from the University of Pennsylvania to talk
1:18.0	about Soviet Union what happened after the fall of the Berlin wall etc. Kristen
1:23.1	would you like to go ahead and introduce yourself and say a bit about your
1:25.5	background? Yeah first of all thank you for having me on your show I am as
1:32.6	you said professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of
1:35.9	Russian and Eastern Pian studies I am an ethnographer and I have been conducting
1:41.6	research in the region for about 20 years I first visited the region back in
1:48.2	1990 right after the wall fell down and I've been doing both archival and
1:52.6	ethnographic work on the cultures of socialism and post socialism for quite a
1:59.2	while I've written six books about the topic and it's something that still
2:05.2	animates my work and I'm very excited to have this opportunity to talk.
2:09.6	Absolutely and we're honored and excited to have you on so yeah let's go ahead
2:14.1	and just diving because we have a lot to cover here maybe just to start off
2:18.2	can you briefly summarize what happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 and
2:23.4	afterwards to sort of set the stage for the rest of this discussion? Sure so
2:27.8	this is a very obviously complicated topic and it really depends where in
2:33.7	Eastern Europe you are talking about one of the biggest problems we have when we
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