The Sickle and the Hammer

This is the YouTube channel for the podcast, “The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union.”

Learn the history of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic you’ve never heard! What was life really like in the Soviet Union? How authoritarian was it? Did a “totalitarian” state really exist? How did the economy function to meet the needs of its citizens? How were the governing apparatus structured? And were the Soviets hell-bent on world domination…. Or world liberation? Or neither?

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