Proles Pod Ep 66 - The Stalin Eras, Part 2: Stewards of the Human Soul (1930-1934)
In the narrative for Part Two of “The Stalin Eras”, Justin and Jeremy detail Soviet society and all that comes with it under Stalin’s leadership from 1930-1934.
This narrative, titled “Stewards of the Human Soul”, covers the varied personal experiences of Soviet citizens from the center to the periphery of the USSR, the winding down of rapid industrialization and collectivization, the controversial anti-religious and anti-kulak campaigns, the so called “show trials” on industrial sabotage, the true nature of internal opposition, and the astonishing results of the first five year plan.
Stay tuned for the next episode which will feature a full length discussion with guest host Jen of How the Red Was Won. Jen joins to guide an in-depth discussion about the era covered in this narrative episode.
The Stalin Eras, inspired by the classic RevLeft Radio episode “Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective, mixes both narrative history (ala Blowback) and discussion (like classic Prolespod) to provide the most comprehensive English overview of the life and impact of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in podcast format.
Whether you’re a socialist history enthusiast, someone who’s just curious to learn more than what you got in school about the Soviet Union, or even a total hater who just wants to rage, this series has something for everyone.
Support the show and get bonus content at patreon.com/prolespod Recomended Resources on "Holodomor" as Genocide Question
Academics who do not consider the Ukraine famine of 1932-1933 to be a genocide include: J. Arch Getty, Stephen Wheatcroft, Mark Tauger, R.W Davies, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Ronald Grigor Suny, Stephen Kotkin to name a few.
Recommended Additional Reading
Stalin History & Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo
Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
Recommended Additional Listening
Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Foundations of Leninism Episode Sources
The Lesser of Two Hells by Alvin D Coox
Practicing Stalinism by J Arch Getty
Excesses Are Not Permitted byJ Arch Getty
Origins of the Great Purges by J Arch Getty
I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strong
I Was Stalin's Bodyguard by Achmed Amba
The Pattern Of Soviet Power by Edgar Snow
Revolution on my Mind by Jochen Hellbeck
Stalin's Library by Geoffrey Roberts
The Great Conspiracy by Michael Sayers & Albert E Kahn
Conjuring Hitler by Guido Giacomo Preparata
Molotov Remembers, Conversations with Felix Chuev
Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood
Teachers of Stalinism by E Thomas Ewing
Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin, Christopher Read, 2017, Routledge Publishing
Next to Stalin by A.T. Rybin
Betrayal of an Ideal by G.A. Tokaev Soviet Famine 1930–1933: "The Law of Spikelets" Myth Explained by Polistrum
In Search of New Facts: Interwar Japanese Military Intelligence Activities in the Baltic States and Finland: 1918–1940 by Shingo Masunaga,
Wrestling with Aspects of Interwar Stalinism by William J. Chase,
Why I resigned from the Trotsky Defense Committee by Mauritz Alfred Hallgren, 1937, International Publishers
Muder at the Kemerovo Mines by Ernst Fischer
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg, 1949), Vol. 29
The Goebbels Diaries: 1942-1943 by Joseph Goebbels,
“Secret Hitler-Benes Negotiations in 1936-37.” bt Gerhard L. Weinberg The Road to Terror. Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov
Russian Soviet Archives
U.S. Archives, Library of Congress
Czech Republic Archives
Vienna Bureau of the Austrian Chancellor
The Red Book, Leon Sedov, 1936, Byulletin Oppositsii, Nos.52-53, October 1936
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, (1929–1940), Isaac Deutscher, 1963, Vintage Russian Library
The Russian Enigma, Ante Ciliga, 1940, Pluto Press
“Red Wreckers in Russia.”,by John D Littlepage
My Life, byLeon Trotsky
Leon Sedov: Son, Friend, Fighter, Leon Trotsky Harvard Trotsky Archive, Houghton Library, Harvard University The Great Terror. A Reassessment by Robert Conquest Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution 1888-1938 by Stephen Cohen The Kirov Murder and Soviet History by Matthew Lenoe
Many, many diaries published on https://prozhito.org/