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

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

March 05 23 - Prologue to Brest-Litovsk
It’s that episode on the international aspects of the Russian Revolution you’ve been waiting for!
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Source:
Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks In Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana University Press, 2007.
49 min
February 16 22.b - Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited People
Source: https://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/DEKRET/declarat.htm
8 min
February 16 22.a - Theses on the Constituent Assembly
Source: https://leninism.su/works/74-tom-35/1583-tezisy-ob-uchretitelnom-sobranii.html
13 min
February 16 22 - The Life and Death of the Constituent Assembly
This one is in the title, folks.
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Sources:
Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks In Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana University Press, 2007.
Znamensky, O. N. Vserossiiskoe Uchrezhditelnoe Sobranie: Istoria Sozyva i Krushenia. Nauka Publshers, 1976.
Cliff, Tony. Revolution Besieged: Lenin 1917-1923. Haymarket Books, 2012.
Carr, E. H. The Bolshevik Revolution: 1917-1923, vol. I. Pelican Books, 1966.
1 hr 5 min
January 24 21 - The Origins of the Cheka
The Cheka: vehicle of Communist oppression, or shield and sword of the revolution?
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Sources:
Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks In Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana University Press, 2007.
Golinkov, D. L. Krushenie antisovietsogo podpolya v SSSR, 1917-1925 gg. Izdatelstvo politicheskoi literatury, Moskva, 1975
51 min
January 18 Year 1 In Review
Our show turns 1 year old today!
15 min
December 31, 2025 20 - The Peasant Question, In All Its Glory
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!
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Sources:
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.
55 min
November 26, 2025 19.d - The Situation of Worker Control
Source: https://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/DEKRET/rab_ctrl.htm
7 min
November 26, 2025 19.c - The Decree on the Press
Source: https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Декрет_о_печати
4 min
November 26, 2025 19.b - The Decree on Peace
Source: https://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/DEKRET/o_mire.htm
8 min

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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…