History of Russia/Ukraine Relations w/ Alexey Sakhnin: Dispatch

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Alexey Sakhnin to discuss the history of Russia/Ukraine relations. Given the current events, this is an important topic for us to understand the historical context of. Take the information here and use it to help you analyze what is unfolding!

Alexey Sakhnin is a Russian activist, historian, Progressive International Council member, and member of the Left Front. He has articles published all over the place, and more coming out all the time. He will hopefully have a new article coming out via Jacobin soon, which will be available on his author page on their website: https://jacobinmag.com/author/alexey-sakhnin.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global
0:32.6	proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. This is a guerrilla
0:39.0	history dispatch where we look at current events through the lens of historical narrative. We
0:44.5	try to historicize the background so that we can understand the present a little bit more.
0:49.5	And we are taking on a very timely topic today. I'm your host, Henry Hukimakii, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. It's great to be with you, Henry. Also great to see you. We're also joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host
1:12.6	of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you holding up? Hello. I'm doing good.
1:18.3	Great. So today we're joined by a great guest who's going to be telling us a lot about history
1:24.2	and very important history given current events. So we are joined by Alexei Saknan, who is a Russian activist, a member of the left front,
1:33.2	and a historian by training.
1:35.3	So somebody who really given the current events, we could not hope for a better guest then.
1:39.9	Hello, Alexi.
1:40.8	How are you doing today?
1:42.5	It's not the best day in my life, mostly because of my country is now aggressor.
1:51.0	It's difficult to put it together in my moral picture of the world, even after 20 years of oppositional activities. Yeah.
2:01.6	But then fine, quite fine.
2:03.6	I totally understand that also is a, you know, Russian resident myself.
2:07.6	So we're glad that we have you with us here.
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