Nationalities Across the Union ☭
The Soviet Union was not born as a nation-state, but as a multinational federation. Stretching from the forests of Eastern Europe to the deserts of Central Asia and the mountains of the Caucasus, it w...
18 Feb 1h 25min
The Sword and Shield of the Revolution: The Red Army and the Intelligence Services of the USSR
Few institutions of the early Soviet state have generated as much fascination, or controversy, as its military and security services. Born in the turmoil of revolution and civil war, the Red Army and ...
4 Feb 1h 13min
World Revolution & Rapprochement Policies Compared
The Soviet Union emerged from revolution and civil war isolated, exhausted, and surrounded by a world that was, at best, deeply suspicious of its existence. Many of the major powers had intervened in ...
21 Jan 1h 9min
The Soviet Avant-Garde: Theater, Arts, & Culture in the Early USSR
Revolutions do more than change governments, they transform the way people imagine the world. In the years following the October Revolution, the Soviet Union became one of the most exciting laboratori...
26 Nov 20251h 5min
Face the Village! The Soviet Peasantry, the Party and the State
The Bolsheviks came to power in the name of the working class, but they inherited a country that was overwhelmingly peasant. In the early 1920s, roughly four out of every five Soviet citizens lived in...
29 Sep 20251h 6min
Workers in a Workers’ State: The Soviet Working Class and the State in the NEP Era
The Russian Revolution was carried out in the name of the working class. The Bolsheviks claimed to represent its interests, Soviet power was built upon its political leadership, and Marxist theory pla...
14 Maj 20251h 15min
Not by Politics Alone: Social Life, Law, Religion and Education in the Early USSR
Millions of people who lived through the founding years of the Soviet Union experienced the profound changes brought about by momentous events in history, but beyond the battlefields and debating hall...
5 Maj 20251h 17min
One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward: The New Economic Policy of the USSR
After years of revolution, civil war, foreign intervention, and economic collapse, the young Soviet state had survived, but at an enormous cost. Industry had ground to a halt, agricultural production ...
16 Apr 202558min
