Understanding the Timing of the Stalinist Terror
Why did the Stalinist Terror occur when it did? Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom investigates how institutional accommodation and immediate triggers produced these tumultuous events. For most …
Stalin
Letter: Critique of Cosmonaut’s Episode on Stalin
I feel that despite good research and the heavily factual nature of the Cosmonaut podcast’s first episode on Stalin there are several omissions along with …
Lenin, History, Future: Response to a Critique
Paul LeBlanc responds to Cliff Connolly’s review of his book ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’, available from Pluto Press. I greatly appreciate Cliff Connolly’s positive yet …
Stalin Pt. 2: the Second World War, Reconstruction, and the Making of High Stalinism
Donald, Christian, and Connor return to the subject of Stalin and Stalinism. Picking up from the Great Purge, the episode covers the Second World War …
Letter: The Truth of Stalinism
The Cosmonaut podcast episode on Stalin provides a comprehensive analysis of the Stalinist period that serves as a necessary corrective to the vulgar anti-Stalinist narratives …
Stalin pt. 1: The Long Road to the Red Inquisition
Donald, Christian, and Connor sit down and discuss the man of steel: Joseph Stalin. Less of a focused biography, we put Stalin in his historical …
On the Stalin Question
Parker McQueeney introduces two of Paul Costello’s essays on the topic of Stalin and Stalinism: Stalin and Historical Reality and Stalin and the Problem of …
Revisiting the Lysenko Affair
In the second episode of our Soviet Science series, Donald, Djamil and Rudy sit down to contextualize an infamous episode of this story: The case …
Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin
Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and …