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Episode 5 - Lights, Camera, Action!

The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union

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Why the Soviet Didn’t Seize Full Power Immediately

Host explains representation imbalances, soldiers' peasant backgrounds, and cautious Menshevik and SR positions limiting Soviet radicalism.

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