Our longest and most controversial episode. This narrative, titled “War Is Already Here” (using the latest archival scholarship) details the legitimacy of the controversial Moscow Trials, the origins of the “Great Terror”, the climax of the Spanish Civil War, war with Japan and apocalyptically - the beginning of a second globe spanning conflict!
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective", mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
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Recommended Supplemental Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo
For a Few Canards More: Counter Inquiry on Stalin and the Soviet Union by Aymeric Monville
Recommended Supplemental Listening
How Stalin Tried to Prevent World War II w/ Michael Jabara Carley
Was the Soviet Union Totalitarian w/ Robert Thurston
Understanding Siege Socialim w/ Gabriel Rockhill
The American Ambassador Who Supported Stalin w/ Dominique Petit-Wagner
Stalin's Constitution & Life in 1930s Soviet Union w/ Samantha Lomb
Sources
Stalin's Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-1939 by Michael Jabara Carley
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shapped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman
Stalin and War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Repression, Mobilization, and External Threat by David Shearer
International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War ed. Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez, Alison Ribeiro De Menezes, Adrian Shubert
Reflections on Stalinism ed. J.Arch Getty, Lewis Siegelbaum
How Russia Blasted Hitler's Spy Machine by Joseph E. Davies
Soviet Archives