Show Notes
We’re back! But so is the bourgeoisie. Please consider supporting me on Patreon at patreon.com/sovietpod or buymeacoffee.com/sovietpod. Sources: Cliff, Tony. Revolution Besieged: Lenin 1917-1923. Haymarket Books 2012. Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana University Press, 2007. Reed, John. 10 Days That Shook The World. Public domain, available on marxists.org. Originally published 1919. Russian Wikipedia article, Oktyabrskoe vooruzhenoe Vosstanie v Moskve (1917). Last accessed 20 Oct 2025.
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Forget Marvel. This is the Socialist Cinematic Universe! Please consider supporting me at patreon.com/sovietpod, or buymeacoffee.com/sovietpod. Sources: Veller, M. I. and Burovsky, A. M. Grazhdanskay Istoria Bezumnoi Voiny. Izdatelstvo ACT, Moskva, 2007. Istoria Grazhdanskoi Voiny v SSSR, vol. 3. Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Bureau of the KPSS. Published by the State Publisher of Political Literature, Mosvka, 1958. PDF downloaded from leninism.su.
“In order for economic development to take place, one must first have an economy.” - Karl Vladimir Stalin, 2026 Please consider supporting me on Patreon at patreon.com/sovietpod or buymeacoffee.com/sovietpod. Sources:
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What attitude ought socialists and communists have to the question of national self-determination? Survey says: Ask Lenin and Stalin! Please consider supporting me on Patreon at patreon.com/sovietpod or buymeacoffee.com/sovietpod. Sources: Natsional’ny Vopros v Nashei Programme - V. I. Lenin, published in “Iskra” 15 July 1903 Kriticheskie zametki o natsional’nom voproce - V. I. Lenin, published in “Prosveshchenie”, November-December 1913 Rabochii klass i natsional’ny vopros - V. I. Lenin, published in “Pravda” 10 May 1913 Nuzhen li obyazatelny yazyk? - V. I. Lenin, published in “Proletarskaya Pravda” 18 January 1914 O Prave Natsii Na Samoopredelenie - V. I. Lenin, 1914 O Natsional’noi Gordosti Velikorossov - V. I. Lenin, published in “Sotsial-Demokrat”, 12 December 1914 Revoliutsionny Proletariat i Pravo Natsii na Samoopredelenie - V. I. Lenin, 16 October 1915 Marksizm i Natsional’ny Vopros, J. V. Stalin, 1906. Texts found on leninism.su and marxist.org