The Soviet Union: The Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin

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🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Gregory Afinogenov received his PhD in History from Harvard University, and is now an assistant professor in Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University.

Greg sits down with Brett to discuss the October Revolution and the Soviet Union.

Topics Include: Joseph Stalin, The Bolsheviks, The failures and fallacies of western liberal propaganda, the Cold War, the Space Race, George Orwell, Trotsky v. Stalin, Holodomor, The successes of the Soviet Union, what leftists of all stripes can learn from the Russian Rev, and much more!

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0:30.0	Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolutionary left radio now opposed to
0:41.4	system anyway you know how you like the left to get the capital of the
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1:09.6	welcome to revolutionary left radio I am your host and comrade bread o' sheh and
1:14.8	today I have on Greg a fanatic enough to say that right that's right all right he's
1:21.1	on to talk about the Soviet Union and Stalin and a bunch of other related
1:25.3	topics I'm really excited for this conversation this month is the 100 year
1:29.5	anniversary of the October Revolution so I think I thought it would be fitting
1:33.3	to have an episode about that revolution and what happened after it I'm Greg
1:37.5	would you like to introduce yourself and say a little bit about your
1:39.6	background before we get into the questions absolutely so I'm a professor of
1:44.7	Imperial Russian history at Georgetown in DC and so my work actually focuses on
1:51.2	the 18th century and it's not particularly devoted to class struggle or or
1:56.2	anything like that but recently you know all Imperial Russian historians are
2:00.2	trained in Soviet history and because of the activity on the left and around the
2:03.1	the anniversary I've also become interested in sort of what my field has been
2:07.4	saying about this and what other people in the broader left political world
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