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Back to SearchWorld War Civ 45: Russia and Germany make peace at Brest-Litovsk
The Bolsheviks had made their revolution promising Peace, Land, and Bread. But peace meant a deal with Germany, which could bring British and French …
2 years ago
World War Civ 44: The Agony of the Allies
It’s 1917. The French are suffering mutinies and the Entente is desperate for a breakthrough anywhere. It’s not to be. Arras, Vimy Ridge, Passchendae…
2 years ago
World War Civ 43: America Enters the War
When Russia withdrew from the war, Britain and France were in the lurch, but America saved the day. Why? Successful war propaganda, propinquity, or m…
2 years ago
AER 145: Remembering Nasrallah
Nora joins and we go over our memories of following Seyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speeches over the decades. He led the resistance for 32 years and freed …
2 years, 1 month ago
World War Civ 42: The Origins of War Propaganda
The scientific principles of war propaganda that we’re all suffering from today were laid down by Anglo-American writers amazed by their own performa…
2 years, 1 month ago
World War Civ 41c: October 1917
From July through to Red October 1917. The Kornilov Affair to the Bolshevik takeover. The culmination of our series on the Bolshevik Revolution.
2 years, 2 months ago
AER 144: The Seventh Venezuela Coup is Being Defeated
With Joe Emersberger. The co-authors of the Monthly Review Press book Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attemp…
2 years, 2 months ago
World War Civ 41b: Russian Revolution pt2 – Lenin and Trotsky
Way back in World War Civ 6,7, and 8, we covered the Russian Revolution of 1905 including future main characters Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Now as t…
2 years, 3 months ago
AER 143: Escape from Christian Zionism with Jamin Hubner
A scholar who grew up in a Christian Zionist tradition, Jamin Hubner joins to talk about how the ideology is unrolled to kids and how he found his wa…
2 years, 3 months ago
World War Civ 41a: 1917 Russian Revolution pt1: to February
The leadup to the February 1917 Revolution, including the assassination of Rasputin, the abdication of tsar Nicholas II, and the rise of dual power b…
2 years, 3 months ago