#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and
Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the
rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism. Thank you for listening
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Introduction (08:48) - Marxism (36:33) - Anarchism (51:30) - The
Communist Manifesto (1:00:29) - Communism in the Soviet Union
(1:20:23) - Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin (1:30:11) - Stalin (1:37:26)
- Holodomor (1:51:16) - The Great Terror (2:04:17) -
Totalitarianism (2:15:19) - Response to Darryl Cooper (2:30:27) -
Nazis vs Communists in Germany (2:36:50) - Mao (2:41:57) - Great
Leap Forward (2:48:58) - China after Mao (2:54:30) - North Korea
(2:58:34) - Communism in US (3:06:04) - Russia after Soviet Union
(3:17:35) - Advice for Lex (3:25:17) - Book recommendations
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