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What did it feel like to sit in a box at the Belchoy Theater, watch a ballet, and then come home and see the suitcase you've packed

for your imminent arrest.

That's a form of living that thankfully is so foreign to me is to be essentially unimaginable.

You're listening to war College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front

lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields.

Hello and

Hello and welcome'm Matthew Gault. One hundred years ago Russia's last czar fell.

Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks came out on top through political maneuvering and civil

war. A great experiment began.

Communism went from theory to practice, and it didn't go well.

Joshua Yafa writes for the New Yorker from Moscow.

He's here today to talk about communism as a state religion and the consequences.

It's also the subject of his article, Russia's House of Shadows in the New Yorkers October

16th issue. Welcome, first.

Thanks for having me.

Once the Bolsheviks took over, what did they try to do to Russia?

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