The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union

35 episodes

20 - The Peasant Question, In All Its Glory
2025/12/31 | 54 mins.
What do you get when you mix 18 years of theory with two separate Congresses of Peasants’ Deputies? Why, one unified Soviet government of, by, and for the masses, of course!Consider supporting me on Patreon! patreon.com/sovietpodSources:The Development of Capitalism in Russia (1899)The Workers’ Party and the Peasantry (1901)The Agrarian Program of Russian Social-Democracy (1902)The Proletariat and the Peasantry (1905)On Our Agrarian Program - A Letter to the Third Congress (1905)The Question on Land and the Struggle for Freedom (1906)The Peasantry and the Working Class (1913)Speech on the Agrarian Question (22 May [4 June] 1917)10 Days That Shook The World. Reed, John.Chresvychayny Vse-Rossiiskii Cyezd Sovietov Krestyanskikh Deputatov. Bolshaya Sovietskaya Ensiklopedia.Vse-Rossiiskii Cyezd Sovietov Krestyanskikh Deputatov.Rozhdenia Sovietskogo Gosudarstva - Chresvychayny i II Vse-Rossiiskii Cyezdy Sovietov Krestyanskikh Deputatov. Soglashenia bolshevikov s levymi eseramy.Evolutskia vzglyadov V. I. Lenina na krestyanstvo i postroenie sotsialisma v krestyanskoi strane. Vakhitov, Rustem Rinatovich.
19.c - The Decree on the Press
2025/11/26 | 3 mins.
Source: https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Декрет_о_печати
19.b - The Decree on Peace
2025/11/26 | 7 mins.
Source: https://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/DEKRET/o_mire.htm
19.a - The Decree on Land
2025/11/26 | 8 mins.
Source: https://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/DEKRET/o_zemle.htm
19.d - The Situation of Worker Control
2025/11/26 | 6 mins.
Source: https://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/DEKRET/rab_ctrl.htm

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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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