Send us a text In this episode, Matthew takes on the shifting relations between the vast Soviet Peasantry and the newly in-power (and not at all solidified) Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the sometimes frustrating, sometimes exciting, but ever-hopeful years of the New Economic Policy.

Send us a text Matthew explores the Soviet working class and its relations to the the state and the Communist Party in the early USSR.

Send us a text Jason presents on early communist efforts to reshape society in the USSR of the 1920's. Bibliography

Send us a text Matthew presents on the New Economic Policy and its impact on early Soviet society. Bibliography:

Send us a text In the second supplementary episode, Matthew gives a breakneck course on the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Bibliography: Babel, Isaac. Red Cavalry. W.W. Norton and Company, 2003. Beevor, Anthony. The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. Bryant, Louise. Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship. The Journeyman Press, 1982. Chamberlin, William. The Russian Revolution 1917-1921: From the Over...

In the first supplemental episode, Jason presents on the history of the revolutionary tradition in the Russian Empire, covering the Decemberist Coup, the Narodnik movement, the Revolution of 1905, and more.

Send us a text Jason and Matthew present on the Soviet constitutions of 1918 and 1924. Bibliography:

Matthew provides some insight into the motivations behind a new Soviet history podcast.