BONUS: Stalin Omnibus (Episodes IV-V-VI-VII)

To keep you all updated on the goings-on at my other podcast, I'm
presenting a Stalin Omnibus with all of the episodes that have
released since the last time Autocracy Now appeared on my
feed.

Episode IV: Revolution In The Economy
After consolidating power over his Bolshevik rivals, Stalin
dispensed with Lenin's pseudo-capitalist NEP and replaced it with
the top-down bureaucratic nightmare that was the Five-Year
Plans.

Episode V: Nadya and Kirov
In the early 1930s, two mysterious (at the time) deaths occurred
to people who were close to Stalin as he consolidated power as
the supreme leader of the USSR.


Episode VI: Devouring the Children
After the death of Kirov, Stalin would turn his wrath towards the
Old Bolsheviks that remained as key revolutionary figures in his
own right. His fellow Communists could remember a time when
Stalin was not Lenin's divinely appointed successor; and for
that, they had to be destroyed. 


Episode VII: The Common Enemy of Mankind
Stalin's "Great Terror" was not limited to eliminating his
political rivals. Soon enough, detentions and executions were
occurring according by quota. In 1937, the killing and
persecution rose to its virtually indiscriminate
peak. 


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