Podcasts about mensheviks

What are we supposed to do when Trump carpet bombs all of his reinforcements in primaries? We're told that the reason he failed on so many issues is because of the uniparty. But now Trump is endorsing every uniparty incumbent, including those who disparaged him, but then goes and endorses against the sitting chairman of the freedom caucus. I explain how we can learn from the left that you can support the party's nominee but move him to where the base is at the same time. Absent an intervention from the right, Trump will continue drifting left. I also can't ignore how he brought two gang bangers up on stage with him to pander to black voters in the worst way. What do we believe in anyway? Has this just become the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks? Finally, are GOP lobbyists about to do to Biden's new green deal what they did with Obamacare  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the earth-shaking events of the 20th century, through a personal lens.   Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch sits down with political scientist Peter Gourevitch to talk about their shared family history. Why did their grandparents/great-grandparents become Mensheviks? How did one half of the family leave the USSR and the other half remain? What was life like in exile in Berlin before the Nazis took power? And how did the family know to flee? What was distinctive about fascism and the terroristic assault on democracy? How was the escape from Paris just like the film Casablanca? What happened to those who remained in the Soviet Union and how did one member meet death via torture? What is the legacy of Menshevism – and what is the relationship between socialism and democracy? Links: Who Lived, Who Died? My Family's Struggle with Stalin and Hitler, Peter Gourevitch, Dio Press   Full episode for subscribers only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast. Members who sign up for $7/mo get 4 original paywalled episodes a month and a free subscription to Damage magazine.

We can't just be an “anti” reactionary-style movement; we must also pursue affirmative good and objective truth. I discuss the false dichotomy in right-wing media between neocons and groypers and how we cannot allow our politics to devolve into European-style Bolsheviks vs. Mensheviks. I offer an affirmative vision for actually accomplishing things in legislatures and tease out my top five priority ideas. First and foremost, we must get ballot initiatives passed to secure bodily autonomy. In that vein, we delve into some of the latest research showing how destructive the vaccines are to people's long-term health, yet because we don't have an effective movement, we have made zero progress on the vaccine front. Finally, I'm joined by my buddy Rick Green of Patriot Academy, who invites us to join him on Dec. 18 for the best four-day handgun training in America. It's not enough to believe in self-defense; we must actually prepare and practice it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do we mean when we talk about the life of the mind?  What is the "intellect" and how can we use it well?  What are some of the hurdles that intellectually inclined people face these days - and that they've faced throughout history?  Jessie and community member Marie set the stage for one of our key themes with a 30,000 overview.The book we're discussing on September 17. 2023 is This Star Shall Abide by Sylvia Engdahl (also published as Heritage of the Star).  You can get it here or as part of a trilogy. (Please note that these are sponsored links.)If you'd like to read more about the book first, here's an article about it from an early issue of Third Factor Magazine.

Hunter Biden's "sweetheart" plea deal collapsed on Wednesday, and the media will have you believe it's about a "diversion" program related to the felony gun charge. Except, shenanigans from the defense attorneys and the prosecutors pulling the rug out from "forever immunity" on any charges ever again actually scuttled the deal. Also, Hilary Clinton wants you to believe MAGA caused the latest heatwave and Donald Trump is attempting one of the grossest campaign moves of all-time against Ron DeSantis. The GOP can not become a party of Bolsheviks vs. Mensheviks, yet that's what Trump is attempting to do here. Finally, Pat ranks the hottest Disney animals of all-time...or something like that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Democratic Republic of Georgia - also known as the First Republic - existed between 1918-1921. Under the control of veterans of the decades long social democratic movement both in the South Caucasus and the Russian Empire at large, these Georgian social democrats led by Noe Jordania were allied with the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. While the Georgian social democrats had for years shared a lot in common with Bolsheviks ideologically and in terms of tactics of struggle (known as the "most Bolshevik of the Mensheviks") they found themselves in a peculiar situation, after splitting with Lenin and the Bolsheviks (who had achieved revolution after October 1917, but now were embattled in Civil War) by 1918. As committed internationalists and Marxists, the Georgian social democrats initially viewed the political future of Georgia within a reformed Russia. Yet, a number of contingent circumstances pushed them to declare national independence and develop an independent national state separate from Soviet Russia and other fledgling South Caucasus states. They found friends in the European-wide Second International. Karl Kautsky and other anti-Soviet social democrats visited Georgia in 1920 and offered not only support to the "peasant republic" but promoted ideals of its virtues, regardless of the on the ground reality, in Europe as a utopian alternative to Bolshevism. The external pressures of WWI and the Russian Civil War, along with long standing political differences with the Bolsheviks, shaped the nationalizing process in Georgia and moved the "First Republic" away from comprehensive social democracy into a nationalizing state reliant on the military and political patronage of European powers. Violent conflict with the non-Georgian population, a lack of clarity of the borders, and other issues made this nationalizing process conflictual, unstable, and in contradiction to the political ideals of many of the Georgian social democrats themselves - Bolshevik and Menshevik alike. Today, the memory of the First Republic tends to either romanticize and exaggerate the extent of social democratic reform or alternatively overlook the honest Marxist convictions and socialist measures undertaken by the ruling Georgian social democrats between 1918-1921. Because the period of the First Republic is overwhelmingly remembered as a time of independence, the contingent aspect of said independence and the political reluctance by the Georgian social democrats to initially pursue it gets entirely lost. To discuss all this and more we welcome Francis King to discuss his article (link below) "Improbable Nationalists? Social Democracy and National Independence in Georgia 1918-21" I recommend all listeners to read this article before listening to the episode: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69894/1/Socialist_History_54_proof_2_pages_35_60.pdf

قسمت سوم:« امروز نخستین روز بهار استممد هرگز نتوانستقایق سفیدش را در تشت، راه بیاندازد.»روایت سفر ناظم و والا نورالدین به باتوم (باتومی)، گرجستان.روایت اختلاف لنین و مارتوف در کنگره‌ی دوم حزب در لندن و ماجرای منشویک و بولشویک.روایت لحظات پر التهاب انتخاب کمونیسم، در هتل فرانسه‌ی باتوم و آشنایی با شعر نوین روس.روایت ورود به دانشگاه کمونیستی زحمتکشان شرق در مسکو و روزهای دانشجویی.روایت پایان جنگ استقلال ترکیه و روزگار تولد ترکیه‌ی نوین..مترجمان آثار:احمد پوریایرج نوبخت__________________کاری از حامد کیان__________________Nazim and vala Nuruddin's trip to Batumi, Georgia.Narration of the difference between Lenin and Martov at the second party congress in London and the story of Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.Nazim's inflammatory moments of choosing communism, in the French hotel of Batumi, and getting acquainted with modern Russian poetry.His Inrolment of the Communist University of Eastern Workers in Moscow and student days.The end of the Turkish independence war and the birth of the new Turkey.__________________Work by: Hamed Kiaan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The history of Bolshevism has many vital lessons for today's revolutionaries – particularly regarding the origins of the revolutionary party that led the masses to victory in Russia. At the second congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, the famous split between the majority (Bolsheviks) and minority (Mensheviks) took place. Many myths and distortion surround this split. It is often wrongly alleged the Mensheviks stood for a ‘democratic' and ‘decentralized' party, in opposition to Lenin's ‘ultra-centralist' and ‘authoritarian' tendencies. In reality, this split on organizational questions was an anticipation of future political differences, which will lead the Mensheviks to betray the revolution. This talk was given by Fightback editor Alex Grant at the 2023 Montreal Marxist Winter School.

C Derick Varn of Varnblog returns to restart the Pop the Left series. For this episode we discuss the history and ideas behind DP Costello's 1961 essay, "Voluntarism and Determinism in Bolshevist Doctrine." Were the Mensheviks right? Was the revolution in Russia doomed from the start? Varnvloghttps://www.youtube.com/c/cderickvarnvlogSupport Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoapss the contemporary left in the parrot room.

Episode 101:This week we're continuing Russia in Revolution An Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928 by S. A. Smith[Part 1]Introduction[Part 2-5]1. Roots of Revolution, 1880s–1905[Part 6-8]2. From Reform to War, 1906-1917[Part 9-12]3. From February to October 1917[Part 13 - This Week]4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power - 0:21The Expansion of Soviets - 18:11[Part 14 - 16?]4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power[Part 17 - 19?]5. War Communism[Part 20 - 22?]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy[Part 23 - 26?]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture[Part 27?]ConclusionFootnotes:1) 0:46Thomas H. Rigby, Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917–1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007).2) 3:06Lutz Häfner, Die Partei der Linken Sozialrevolutionäre: In der Russischen Revolution von 1917–1918 (Cologne: Böhlau, 1994).3) 4:05.4) 5:18Moskovskii Voenno-Revoliutsionnyi komitet, oktiabr'-noiabr' 1917 goda (Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1968), 182–3.5) 7:24Velikii oktiabr' i zashchita ego zavoevanii: pobeda sotsialisticheskoi revoliutsii (Moscow: Nauka, 1987), 197.6) 9:46Protasov, Vserossiiskoe uchreditel'noe sobranie.7) 11:03N. S. Lar'kov, ‘Sibirskii Oktiabr' i marginaly', in Iz istorii revoliutsii v Rossii, vol. 1 (Tomsk: Tomskii gos. Universitet, 1996), 169–75; A. V. Dobrovol'skii, ‘Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov vo vlasti i v oppozitsii, 1917–1923 gody' (avtoreferat dissertatsii) (Novosibirsk, 2004), ch. 2, section 3.8) 11:38S. V. Iarov, Gorozhanin kak politik: revoliutsiia, voennyi kommunizm i NEP glazami petrogradtsev (St Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1999), 20.9) 13:05Protasov, Vserossiiskoe uchreditel'noe sobranie, 320.10) 16:27Mark von Hagen, War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007).11) 17:58Risto Alapuro, State and Revolution in Finland (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 177.12) 18:09Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order (New York: Viking, 2014), xxxix.13) 19:51N. S. Lar'kov, Nachalo grazhdanskoi voiny v Sibiri: armiia i bor'ba za vlast' (Tomsk: Tomskii gos. Universitet, 1995), 36.14) 21:02State Archive of Perm' Oblast', ГАПО ф. Р-359, оп.1, д.2, л.77.15) 22:00E. G. Gimpel'son, Formirovanie sovetskoi politicheskoi systemy, 1917–1923gg. (Moscow: Nauka, 1995), 26.16) 23:24Vladimir N. Brovkin, The Mensheviks after October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987), 134.17) 23:49V. A. Koklov, ‘Men'sheviki na vyborakh v gorodskie sovety tsentral'noi Rossii vesnoi 1918g', in Men'sheviki i men'shevizm: sbornik statei (Moscow: Izd-vo Tip. Novosti 1998), 44–68, (51).18) 24:18Koklov, ‘Men'sheviki', in Men'sheviki i men'shevizm, 49.19) 24:47A. F. Zhukov, Ideino-politicheskii krakh eserovskogo maksimalizma (Leningrad: Izd-vo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1979), 124.20) 26:18Gimpel'son, Formirovanie, 42.21) 26:35.

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents Chapter 20 from comrade William Z. Foster's 1955 work entitled "History of the Three Internationals." What was the reason for the split between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks? What role did the Party of a New Type play in the development of Marxism internationally? How did it relate to the opportunism of the Second International? Foster answers all these questions are more in this brilliant analysis of Lenin's Party of a new type. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used: History of the Three Internationals (1955) archive.org/details/william-z.-foster-history-of-t… Recommended Literature: Readers' Guide to Marxist Classics by Maurice Cornforth (1954) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maurice-cornforth/readers-… Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-stalin/dialectical-and-h… Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… Communists and the Liberation of Europe by Maxine Levi (1945) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maxine-levi/communists-and… PSMLS Website: peoplesschool.org/ Party of Communists USA Website partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ 0:00 Lenin: The Party of a New Type 3:47 Lenin and His Work 7:32 The Building of a Revolutionary Program 12:51 Early Development of the Party in Russia 19:17 The Birth of Bolshevism: London, 1903 23:55 The International Intervenes

This is the third episode in a series regarding the life of Russian dictator Vladimir Lenin.  This episode picks up after the disaster split between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.  Opportunity abounds to spark the socialist revolution (Petrograd uprisings, coronation chaos, World War I, and Gaspon's last gasp) but each time Lenin fails to seize the opportunity.  The role that Tsar Nicholas and Rasputin played in the failure of the Romanov's is fleshed out and the episode ends with a provisional government taking over after the February Revolution.  Lenin's turn in charge would have to wait.   The material in this podcast serves as an introduction to the International Baccalaureates' Paper two topic 10  - Authoritarian States (20th century).

This is part of a series of episodes to compliment those studying the GCSE course Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-41. In this episode we look at ideas, development and support for three key groups; the Liberals, the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Social Democrats, who would, in turn, be split into the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. All three would go on to compete for control over Russia in 1917 so this will be important background to understanding what happened in 1917.

We examine Chapter One of Revolutionary theorists Vladimir Lenin's "State And Revolution" which discusses the nature of the state apparatus; that it arises from the irreconcilability of class antagonisms and the repression of the proletariat class. In order to seize the means of production, the proletariat must overthrow the ruling bourgeoisie state (dictatorship of the bourgeoisie) and install the rule of the proletariat class (dictatorship of the proletariat) to repress the reactionary and bourgeois forces attempting to seize power once more. After the counter-revolution is suppressed, class antagonisms are no more, and therefore, society transforms from a class society to a free society, and thus, the state apparatus gradually withers away, since the repression of a certain class no longer exists, the state can no longer exist. Lenin also discusses revisionism of Marx's and Engels' work by the Mensheviks and Social Democrats.

During the Russian Civil War, between May 1918 and February 1921, the Democratic Republic of Georgia – known as the First Republic - was a nominally independent state controlled by social democrats. These Georgian social democrats were Mensheviks. Formally, Menshevism and Bolshevism were two distinct wings of the empire wide Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In the decades leading up to 1918, Menshevism and Bolshevism in Georgia had more politically in common than not. Over time strategic and political differences set them apart. Georgian Menshevism, led by Noe Zhordania and others, blended a particular vision of Georgian nationhood and national liberation with their Marxist politics. In 1921, as Bolsheviks began consolidating power around Georgia, the Red Army invaded with the help of local Georgian Bolsheviks, and the First Republic was no more. In Georgia today the First Republic exists as an important reference point of Georgian independence and sovereignty and the only example of modern Georgian nationhood. However, the Marxist politics of its founders and the intimate political upbringing they shared with Bolsheviks is often either ignored or disregarded. So what does the First republic really mean for Georgia today? How should it be remembered and understood? In this episode, Bryan Gigantino and Sopo Japaridze discuss all this and more with Stephen Jones. Stephen Jones is a historian and political scientist, and a self- described socialist, who has been studying and writing on Georgia since the 1970s. He is an expert on Georgia's First Republic authoring the now classic 2005 study on the topic Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy as well as an excellent study on post-Soviet Georgia entitled Georgia: A Political History Since Independence.

Please enjoy the first part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Note: This class was recorded on 2/15/18, not on 2/8/18. We apologize for the incorrect date on the screen. Watch the series: Part 2: https://youtu.be/6z_2s5tDt_A Part 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:42 Socialist Party split 1:10 Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks 2:27 Positions on the First Split 4:06 Major split in the 1950s 5:15 Split into PSL 6:51 Split over Revisionism 8:54 Split to the New Left 11:18 Comintern importance 11:46 PCUSA is new or old left? (Q&A) 13:08 Concurrent context 13:43 PCUSA wasn't a split 14:43 Rise of the Maoists 15:34 New Left & Vietnam 17:57 Red-baiting in New York 18:30 Left unity & revisionism? (Q&A) 21:03 Herbert Marcuse quote 23:05 Contradictions in the West 29:40 Dissolution of the Comintern

The Mensheviks mistake was greater than the Bolsheviks. Hebrew text: https://www.torahrecordings.com/rebbe/igroskodesh/007/004/1987

In a week when I’m laying down hard truths about our political system, it’s time to face the fact that Republicans do not offer a contrast from Democrats on a single issue. I go through the news of the day – from the “stimulus” checks to coronavirus fascism and rampant crime. There is no difference between the parties. Also, we have already won the lockdown battle intellectually, but facts don’t matter, so it’s time to change tactics.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt rambles about the Mensheviks, BAP, and wokeism. __ And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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In this episode I talk to Elisheva Levy, a Ph.D. candidate at UPenn, about heteronormative households, the concept of "home"? We question nuclear families' normality while delving into ideas of pre-modern and modern communist habitat (while dealing with Marxist's concepts of primitive communism). Ideology and the lack of it in capitalism remain a discussion during the whole conversation, while we also talk about the possibilities of change of the paradigms of communal living for the future. Recommendations. Alexandra Kollontai - was a Marxist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1915 on as a Bolshevik (later Communist). Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in the Bolshevik government in 1917–1918, she became the first woman in history to become an official member of a governing cabinet. In 1922 Kollontai was appointed as a diplomatic counselor to the Soviet legation in Norway, and soon received a promotion to head the legation, one of the first women to hold such a position. https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/index.htm https://nyti.ms/29R2miP https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/alexandra-kollontai-soviet-womens-rights-revolution-zhenotdel-uzbekistan https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSkollontai.htm Survivor Israel Season 10 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796301/episodes?season=10&ref_=tt_eps_sn_5

When you have a majority, flaunt it. 

The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed after the Russian Empire by the second Soviet president, Joseph Stalin in 1924. Until 1953 under Stalin the USSR was the second giant nation after USA. Originally, USSR raised after the October 1917 socialist revolution done by the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) overthrowing Prime Minister of the provincial gov.which had combined the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks after overthrowing Tsar Nicholus II in the March Russian revolution. Before 1917, Russia was a poorly semi-capitalist state as transformes from feudalism since 1860 when the serfs were freed by the Emancipation of Serfs Act in 1861. Since 1861, the serfs were denied their rights while poverty was increasing. Poverty was accelerated when the Tsarist regime forcefully entered the First World War. Now, the Bolsheviks (socialists) and Mensheviks (white minority, capitalists). ********** So, from 1945 the Soviet Union started to disintegrate due to some reasons but after the death of Pres. Stalin in 1953 the elements agaisnt communism started to appear. The rise of Mikhail Gorbachev into power in 1985 brought the Soviet Union and world socialism into an end. The collapse of USSR left the USA as the only leading capitalist state with ambition of global domination

The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed after the Russian Empire by the second Soviet president, Joseph Stalin in 1924. Until 1953 under Stalin the USSR was the second giant nation after USA. Originally, USSR raised after the October 1917 socialist revolution done by the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) overthrowing Prime Minister of the provincial gov.which had combined the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks after overthrowing Tsar Nicholus II in the March Russian revolution. Before 1917, Russia was a poorly semi-capitalist state as transformes from feudalism since 1860 when the serfs were freed by the Emancipation of Serfs Act in 1861. Since 1861, the serfs were denied their rights while poverty was increasing. Poverty was accelerated when the Tsarist regime forcefully entered the First World War. Now, the Bolsheviks (socialists) and Mensheviks (white minority, capitalists). ********** So, from 1945 the Soviet Union started to disintegrate due to some reasons but after the death of Pres. Stalin in 1953 the elements agaisnt communism started to appear. The rise of Mikhail Gorbachev into power in 1985 brought the Soviet Union and world socialism into an end. The collapse of USSR left the USA as the only leading capitalist state with ambition of global domination

This is a little introduction to the A.K. 47 podcast recorded on May 2, 2019, about four months after the first episode was recorded and published. Basically, Kristen Ghodsee is apologizing for the very amateur quality of the early episodes as she figured out the finer intricacies of Garage Band, audio editing, and how to speak into a microphone.In this podcast, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women's activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Russian Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s emancipation and a strident proponent of sexual relations freed from all economic considerations. After the October Revolution, Kollontai became the Commissar of Social Welfare and helped to found the Zhenotdel (the women's section of the Party). She oversaw a wide variety of legal reforms and public policies to help liberate working women and to create the basis of a new socialist sexual morality. But Russians were not ready for her vision of emancipation, and she was sent away to Norway to serve as the first Russian female ambassador (and only the third female ambassador in the world). In this podcast, Kristen R. Ghodsee – a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books 2018) – selects excerpts from the essays, speeches, and fiction of Alexandra Kollontai and puts them in context. Each episode provides an introduction to the abridged reading with some relevant background on Kollontai and the historical moment in which she was writing.

The first Russian Revolution has failed. The Tsar dissolves the Duma at will and refuses to make concessions to the liberal parties of the Duma. The socialists are driven underground, imprisoned or exiled in large numbers. As the Social Democratic Parties of Europe grow in power and influence. Mensheviks and Bolsheviks look to their comrades for support and example, particularly the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Meanwhile, the prospect of world war looms in the background, threatening to destroy the world as they knew it. Features a special message from Lynn Perkins of The History of the Ottoman Empire podcast. Transcripts may be requested for accessibility reasons by e-mailing movementspod@gmail.com. Find us on facebook and twitter @movementspod and support the show by donating at https://www.patreon.com/movementspodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/movementspod)

We celebrate the 100th-anniversary of the October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution. Fun story, this all actually happened in November because Russia was still using the Julian Calendar.

He continue the journey through the Russian Revolution from the fall of the Czar to the Provisional Government. You can also check out exclusive content at the podcast' youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYjULbrvVepZ04KaeyxjMyA