GTAA Season 5 Episode 19: The USSR/How Revolutions Go Wrong (ft. Varn, Deep State Kuba & Mean Djene)

Give Them An Argument - A podcast by Ben Burgis

A lot of people who don't love capitalism might still worry about the way revolutions can go very, very wrong. In the crumbling Russian Empire a little over a hundred years ago, the Bolsheviks came to power on a platform "land, peace and bread" and "all power to" democratically elected workers councils...and ended up with an authoritarian and often economically dysfunctional one-party state where working-class people had fewer right in some ways than their counterparts in Western Europe. What...

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