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For this long awaited episode on Vietnam - Jen (@HowTheRedWasWon) joins to talk about her recent unique experience of visiting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a country that her grandparents fled from in the 1960s! Jen guides us through her journey there, what she learned, and some important reflections about revolution in the USA she had as a result.
Listed below are links to Jen's social media pages which are home to her educational projects on socialist theoretical texts and organizing. Check them out!
Jen on Twitter: @ho_chi_minnie // @keepaustinnasty // @howtheredwaswon
Jen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/how_the_red_was_won/
Jen on Tiktok: @big.nasty08 // @red.won.pod
Mutual Aid Organization: @red_help_atx
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Since March of this year I have been the co-host of another podcast called Prolespod (my tenure starts on Episode 49). On that show we have been working extensively on producing a special event series known as The Stalin Eras. The key focus of this series is to illuminate the early history of the Soviet Union and the life of its longest lasting leader, Joseph Stalin, using some of the latest scholarship. It features both narrative history and discussion.
This upload is the full introductory episode for the series. If you wish to listen to 10+ hours of content released thus far in the series I recommend subscribing to Prolespod on your choice of podcast platform and begin diving into this unique presentation of Soviet History that doesnât exist elsewhere!
To get more episodes of The Stalin Eras - subscribe to Prolespod - wherever you listen to podcasts!
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In this fascinating episode Andre Schmid joins to discuss his book âNorth Korea's Mundane Revolutionâ. As always on this show, weâre covering something new by talking about the early years of the North Korean revolution in the aftermath of the Korean War which "ended" in 1953.
Andre Schmid's research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century Korea and East Asia, as seen in the broader context of global, comparative history. He is interested in historiography and the uses of public memory, the relation between cultural practices and political economy, gendered social history and popular social movements.More about Andre's work
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In this fascinating episode Alexander Herbert joins to discuss his book âWhat About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riotâ. As always on this show, weâre covering something new by talking about both counterculture music and the late Soviet Era. I myself have virtually no understanding of the punk genre, so donât think you need to be a Punk Rock enthusiast to enjoy this episode as the topics we broach include: soviet regulation of media, how all of this ties into the end of the soviet union and more!
Alexander Herbert, who holds a Masters in Russian history from Indiana University, and a PHD in Modern Russia from Brendeis University, is an expert in the history of the Soviet Union and Global Environmental History. His research examines the interrelations of science, technology, and environmental change in the late USSR. Alexander is additionally interested in the intersection of popular culture and education and has published two books: the first on the history of punk rock in the Soviet Union and Russia, and another that uses horror films in the late USSR to examine the anxieties and fears of late Soviet society. He has also taught classes on the history of capitalism, radical politics in Europe, film history, and underground culture.
Support the podcast at patreon.com/aesthepodcastAlex's Substack
"Nothing lasts forever: Russian Punks in Georgia" (Alex's documentary mentioned in the episode)
Lenin in 45 Volumes
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In this episode, Samantha Lomb returns as a guest to talk about a recent book she edited entitled: Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985.
In Win or Else, the late soviet historian Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. Drawing on rich archival materials as well as newspapers and interviews with former players, Win or Else reveals the foundations of Soviet sports culture and the hazards that teams faced both in victory and in loss.
This is a fun conversation even if you aren't interested in the sports. We cover the early history of the Soviet conception of sports to the intriguing connection Soviet soccer had to the NKVD, the state security organization that would later become known as the KGB - and everything in between!
You can support the show at www.patreon.com/aesthepodcast
Get the Book here - Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985
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Gabriel Rockhill joins to talk about a controversial concept for Western socialists: âsiege socialismâ. A term coined by the great Michael Parenti.
Unlike most episodes of this show we wonât be focusing on a specific country but examining the variety of past and present socialist countries through the lens of historical materialism and dialectics, two concepts Gabriel explains for us.
Gabriel Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and the author or editor of over nine books, as well as numerous scholarly and general public articles.
He is the editor of the upcoming translation of Domenico Losurdoâs magisterial Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn. It is is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientationâcharacterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-communismâis rooted in the political economy of imperialism.
You can support the show at www.patreon.com/aesthepodcast
To learn more about Gabriel's work check out the following links:
https://x.com/GabrielRockhill
https://monthlyreview.org/product/western-marxism/
https://gabrielrockhill.com/
https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@criticaltheoryworkshop5299
https://monthlyreview.org/product/western-marxism/
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Sardana returns to finish our discussion on her recent study published through Ziibiing Lab "Indigenous Diamonds : Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia."
In our discussion we delve into the impacts extractivism has had on the people of the Sakha Republic before, during, and after the Soviet Union (USSR). Sardana, who is Sakha, also gives her own personal and community experiences of growing up both Indigenous and Soviet.
Sardana Nikolaeva is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Ziibiing Lab (Global Indigenous Politics Collaboratory) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto. Her work broadly centers on Indigenous politics, Indigenous classed and gendered experiences, geopolitical 'economy, economic sanctions, and extractivism.
The Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet Union (Part 1) w/ Alice and Dennis Bartels
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Sardana's study
Indigenous Diamonds :Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia.
Sardana's appearances on other podcasts
Indigenous diamonds w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective w/ Sardana Nikolaeva (pt.1)
An Other's view of Russia w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
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Sardana Nikolaeava joins this episode to discuss her recent study published through Ziibiing Lab "Indigenous Diamonds : Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia."
In our discussion we delve into the impacts extractivism has had on the people of the Sakha Republic before, during, and after the Soviet Union (USSR). Sardana, who is Sakha, also gives her own personal and community experiences of growing up both Indigenous and Soviet.Sardana Nikolaeva is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Ziibiing Lab (Global Indigenous Politics Collaboratory) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto. Her work broadly centers on Indigenous politics, Indigenous classed and gendered experiences, geopolitical 'economy, economic sanctions, and extractivism.
The Indigenous Peoples of the Soviet Union (Part 1) w/ Alice and Dennis Bartels
Support the show at www.patreon.com/aesthepodcast
Find me on twitter @AESThePodcast
Sardana's study
Indigenous Diamonds :Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia.
Sardana's appearances on other podcasts
Indigenous diamonds w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective w/ Sardana Nikolaeva (pt.1)
An Other's view of Russia w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
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In this episode weâll be discussing Sopo's article on Jacobin entitled "How Free-Market Ideologues Dismantled Health Care in Post-Soviet Georgia". In doing so we will be talking about not only her memories of Soviet Georgia, but the memories of her family members and Georgian workers, doctors and nurses. We delve into the origins of the soviet socialist healthcare system, its operations, its historic outcomes, as well as its catastrophic dismantling in the 1990s.
Sopiko Japaridze is cofounder of Georgiaâs Solidarity Network, an independent union. She has been a labor and community organizer in the United States and the post soviet Easten European nation of Georgia. I highly recommend you follow her work on twitter at @sopjap - to get excellent analysis on modern Georgian events from a communist perspective. I also recommend giving Sopoâs podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia a listen!
Support the show at patreon.com/aesthepodcast.
Find me on twitter @AESThePodcast
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In this episode, Charles Xu of the Qiao Collective (a diaspora Chinese media collective challenging U.S. aggression) joins to walk us through the long history of solidarity between China and Palestine.
We do this through discussing "The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanityâs Future" which is Charles' recent article published on the Qiao Collective website. Weâre going to be talking about the origins and basis of this revolutionary solidarity between the people of China and Palestine, how this relationship has changed over the years, Chinaâs stance today on Palestinian resistance and how this revolutionary history manifests in the present.
If you found this episode useful - Charles and I had an extended discussion on the state of Chinaâs support for other global south countries in general which is accessible via Patreon.
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www.twitter.com/aesthepodcast
The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanityâs Future
Qiao Collective Twitter
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This episode features Dominique Petit-Wagner discussing her masters thesis entitled: "Briefing the Ambassador: Joseph Davies and the U.S. Press Corps in Moscow, 1936-1938."
Our discussion focuses on American Ambassador Joseph E. Davies and a few American journalists who bought into the socialist realist presentation of the Soviet Union during the tumoulotus 1930s. We talk about what socialist realism was, why and how these eminent Americans supported the Soviet Union, and what this tells us about modernization during the Stalin period.
Dominique Petit-Wagner is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Soviet, Canadian, and intellectual history. Whereas her MA thesis explored American perceptions of the Soviet Union and their controversial immersion in socialist realist culture in the late 1930s, her doctoral research seeks to contrast and compare these findings against the experiences of Canadians touring the USSR in the interwar period.
Link to Dominique's paper: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/175e024b-31d4-478f-8453-39578212230e/content
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This episode features sociologist Dr. Agata Zysiak talking about her recent work "Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland" (2023), which examines first-generation students' struggles with reluctant academia in a developing socialist world that was looking for equality.
We talk about the successes and failures of this ambitious socialist program, its similarities and differences to race based affirmative action in North America, and what this tells us about social reproduction and the zombie impact of social systems even in the face of dramatic social revolution.
Agata Zysiak, PhD, is a historical sociologist working at Vienna University in Austria and the University of ĆĂłdĆș in Poland. You can get 30% off Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland and any other Purdue University Press book by ordering from their website and using the code PURDUE30 at checkout.
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This episode features Zoe Stephens (@Zoediscoversnk), an experienced tour guide to North Korea (DPRK). Using her own experience, knowledge, footage and education - Zoeâs goal is to present a image of North Korea that aims to humanize the people of the DPRK in ways that are rarely seen in the West.
She tells us what is required to visit on a guided tour, what to expect, what are some common misconceptions, and even the fascinating opportunity to stay for a few days with a North Korean family outside of Pyongyang. This episode was recorded in 2023 - before the re-opening of the border for tourism - so while we speak to the expectation of re-opening it has now happened as of early 2024.
Link to all of Zoe's social media/project pages: https://linktr.ee/zoediscovers
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Iskolat, a Latvian communist, returns to teach us more about the shrouded history of Latvia, which was a part of the Soviet Union, officially known as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic continuously from 1944 to 1990.
In this second and final part weâll be discussing the post-World War II era of building socialism in Latvia and the Baltics at large. We cover the successes of socialist construction, its weaknesses, and ultimately the downfall of soviet system in Latvia in the early 1990s and how that played out. Iskolat also delves into present day realities of Latvia that donât always make international news.
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Isoklat twitter: twitter.com/iskolat
Workers' Struggle (English/Latvian/multilang): https://t.me/StradniekuCina
BalticSSRs (Reddit): https://reddit.com/r/BalticSSRs/
Riga History Group (Russian): https://t.me/RigaHistoryGroupâŠ
School of Scientific Communism/Ruslan Dzugov Channel (Russian section): https://t.me/rusdzugov
Dictatorship of the Proletariat (YT channel of the Russian section of the Political School): https://youtube.com/@user-xk6xj4xm4n
Anna Louise Strong's The New Lithuania: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89017381948&seq=5
The Baltic Riddle by Greg Meiksins: https://archive.org/details/TheBalticRiddle
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Iskolat, a Latvian communist, joins to show to teach us about the shrouded history of Latvia, which was a part of the Soviet Union (officially known as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic) continuously from 1944 to 1990.
In this first part weâll be discussing the pre-history of the socialist republic by delving into the conditions of what would become Latvia in the early 20th century to the eventual socialist revolution of the early 1940s. When I say the history covered here from the Communist POV is almost impossible to find in English, I am not exaggerating, I hope you find this discussion as informative and enlightening as I have.
Isoklat twitter: twitter.com/Iskolat
BalticSSRs (Reddit): https://reddit.com/r/BalticSSRs/
Telegram: Workers' Struggle (English/Latvian/multilang): https://t.me/StradniekuCina
Telegram: Riga History Group (Russian): https://t.me/RigaHistoryGroupâŠ
Telegram: School of Scientific Communism/Ruslan Dzugov Channel (Russian section): https://t.me/rusdzugov
Telegram: Dictatorship of the Proletariat (YT channel of the Russian section of the Political School): https://youtube.com/@user-xk6xj4xm4n
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Carlos Martinez (@agent_of_change) joins the show to talk about his excellent book "The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century".
In this final part of a three part discussion weâll be discussing the propaganda war against China and the socialist developments all leftists should be following.
Carlos Martinez is an author and political activist from London, Britain. His first book, The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, was published in 2019 by LeftWord Books. He is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, a co-founder of No Cold War, and a coordinating committee member of the International Manifesto Group. He writes regularly in the Morning Star, Global Times, China Daily and CGTN.
Carlos' website: https://invent-the-future.org/
Carlos' youtube: https://www.youtube.com/inventthefuture
Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/aesthepodcast
Podcast twitter @aesthepodcast
Intro/Outro Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPx2jKjkwE
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Carlos Martinez (@agent_of_change) joins the show to talk about his excellent book "The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century".
In this second part of a three part discussion weâll be delving into how China operates as a socialist democracy. We'll be answering what that means, talk about some accomplishments as well how it differs from Western liberal democracies.
Carlos Martinez is an author and political activist from London, Britain. His first book, The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, was published in 2019 by LeftWord Books. He is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, a co-founder of No Cold War, and a coordinating committee member of the International Manifesto Group. He writes regularly in the Morning Star, Global Times, China Daily and CGTN.
Carlos' website: https://invent-the-future.org/
Carlos' youtube: https://www.youtube.com/inventthefuture
Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/aesthepodcast
Podcast twitter @aesthepodcast
Intro/Outro Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbBBnNW6EMA
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Carlos Martinez (@agent_of_change) joins the show to talk about his excellent book "The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century".
In this first part of this three part discussion on China weâll be delving into why socialist China remains but the USSR doesnt. We'll be tackling this question through the lens of how these two communist juggernauts approached the necessity of controversial political and economic reforms in the 1970s in China under Deng Xiaoping and in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s. Next episodes in this series will look at Chinese socialist democracy, and the propaganda war against it!
Carlos Martinez is an author and political activist from London, Britain. His first book, The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, was published in 2019 by LeftWord Books. He is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, a co-founder of No Cold War, and a coordinating committee member of the International Manifesto Group. He writes regularly in the Morning Star, Global Times, China Daily and CGTN.
Carlos' website: https://invent-the-future.org/
Carlos' youtube: https://www.youtube.com/inventthefuture
Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/aesthepodcast
Podcast twitter @aesthepodcast
Intro/Outro Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jP5r2b7hew
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Monica Macias joins the show to discuss her book "Black Girl From Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" which covers the harrowing tale of her life journey from post-colonial Equatorial Guinea ,where she was born, to finding herself under the guardianship of Kim Il Sung - the revolutionary founding father of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) also known as North Korea.
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In this episode weâll be discussing the subject of Julia Mead's (@JuliaKMead) PHD research on an often forgotten socialist nation: the nation formerly known as the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Julia covers for us the pre-history, emergence of the communist state, political struggles as well as socialist successes and failures. She also gives us some insight as to why this socialist nation often falls to the wayside in popular Western imagination.
Julia Mead is an environmental historian of modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on energy, gender, and labor. Her dissertation, âSocialist Rust Belt: Energy, Masculinity, and the End of Czechoslovak Socialism,â traces the rise and fall of the Czechoslovak coal economy from 1948 to 2004, and its relationship to changing norms of masculinity. She shows how coal miners in socialist Czechoslovakia achieved an elite social status, and how they lost it almost overnight during the transition to capitalism.
Follow Julia at https://twitter.com/JuliaKMead and https://juliamead.squarespace.com/
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