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History of Communism: Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao
This episode provides a scholarly examination of communist ideology and its 20th-century implementation. Vejas Lulevicius analyzes the paradoxes within Marxian thought, the rise of total control under Lenin and Stalin, and the disastrous a…
3h 37m -
Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, and the War in Ukraine
Historian Stephen Kotkin analyzes the historical echoes between the regimes of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin, framing the current war in Ukraine not as a result of Western expansionism, but as a strategic, albeit disastrous, choice driv…
2h 49m -
Stalin, Genocide, and the Nature of Dictatorship
This episode features historian Norman Naimark in a profound analysis of Stalin, the Holodomor, and the anatomy of genocide. Naimark contextualizes Stalin not as a mere monster but as a highly competent, paranoid dictator who leveraged ide…
2h 25m
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