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  1. Episode 18 - Shots Fired

    Publicerades: 2025-11-02

  2. Episode 17 - Lessons to be Learned

    Publicerades: 2025-09-28

  3. Episode 16 - Filling in the Blanks

    Publicerades: 2025-09-26

  4. Episode 15, supplemental a - To the Garrison of the City of Petrograd and the Surrounding Areas

    Publicerades: 2025-09-03

  5. Episode 15, supplemental b - Address of the Second All-Russian Congress

    Publicerades: 2025-09-03

  6. Episode 15 - Checkmate

    Publicerades: 2025-09-03

  7. Episode 14 supplemental: The Bolshevik Central Committee Resolution of 10 October

    Publicerades: 2025-07-30

  8. Episode 14 - On The Eve

    Publicerades: 2025-07-30

  9. Episode 13 supplemental - The Life of Natasha Morozova

    Publicerades: 2025-07-06

  10. Episode 13 - The People on the Brink

    Publicerades: 2025-07-06

  11. **Announcement** “The Sickle and the Hammer” guest spots!

    Publicerades: 2025-06-15

  12. **Announcement** Patreon page updates!

    Publicerades: 2025-06-14

  13. Episode 12 - Building Momentum

    Publicerades: 2025-05-27

  14. Episode 11 - The People’s Defense

    Publicerades: 2025-05-12

  15. Episode 10 - Kerensky’s Farce

    Publicerades: 2025-04-24

  16. Episode 9 - Reaction and Recovery

    Publicerades: 2025-04-14

  17. Episode 8 - June and July

    Publicerades: 2025-04-03

  18. Episode 7 - The People and the Party

    Publicerades: 2025-03-24

  19. Episode 6, supplemental a - Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies Order Number 1

    Publicerades: 2025-03-13

  20. Episode 6, supplemental d - Miliukov’s Note

    Publicerades: 2025-03-13

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We are often told the USSR was an oppressive, authoritarian society, lacking freedom and democracy. There were endless purges that claimed the lives of millions of “dissidents,” purges that were designed for one thing and one thing only: to keep power in the hands of those who wielded it.And as we all know, the economy was based on socialist and communist principles, which is why it barely functioned at all. There were endless famines, genocides against minorities within the nation, and an industrial base that was constantly tottering on the edge of collapse.But instead of trying to address these issues at home, the leaders of the USSR were fixated only on world domination, on spreading communism in order to destroy freedom around the world. From Europe and Asia to Latin America and Africa, the Communists were a threat to freedom the world over.…. Or were they?Learn the story of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic you’ve never heard! What was life really like in the Soviet Union? How authoritarian was it? Did a “totalitarian” state really exist? How did the economy function to meet the needs of its citizens? How were the governing apparatus structured? And were the Soviets hell-bent on world domination…. Or world liberation? Or neither?Subscribe to find out!

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