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Interchange – Talking Revolution Blues: The French, Haitian, Cuban, and Russian Revolutions

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:49 — 41.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “The Day After the Revolution” by Pulp…The Revolution begins and ends with you. Today we highlight four past programs on Revolution. This is our Fund Drive Show. Please support Interchange: call us at 812.323.1200 or make a secure online pledge. Thanks! SEGMENT ONE: …

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Interchange – The Legacy of C. L. R. James

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:05 — 43.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBest known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the center of revolutionary politics and theory in the 20th century; a one-time Trotskyist and fully informed by a study of Marx, James’s greatest work …

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Interchange – Leon Trotsky, or The Revolution Betrayed

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:02 — 42.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show today is another in our series on the Russian Revolution of 1917. This time our focus is on Leon Trotsky. Our music throughout is by the 80s English, socialist, skinhead, soul, punk group, The Redskins. We open with “Lev Bronstein.” The dream of socialism as …

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Interchange – Understanding Stalin: The Russian Revolution (Part Two)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:34 — 43.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the conclusion of Hiroaki Kuromiya’s 1991 short biography of Stalin, he tells us what might be all we need to know of Stalin’s worldview: first, Stalin underlined the following passage in Trotsky’s 1920 Terrorism and Communism, “If human life in general is sacred and inviolable, we …

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