Iskolat, a Latvian communist, joins to show to teach us about the shrouded history of Latvia, which was a part of the Soviet Union (officially known as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic) continuously from 1944 to 1990.

In this first part we’ll be discussing the pre-history of the socialist republic by delving into the conditions of what would become Latvia in the early 20th century to the eventual socialist revolution of the early 1940s. When I say the history covered here from the Communist POV is almost impossible to find in English, I am not exaggerating, I hope you find this discussion as informative and enlightening as I have.

Isoklat twitter: twitter.com/Iskolat

BalticSSRs (Reddit): https://reddit.com/r/BalticSSRs/

Telegram: Workers' Struggle (English/Latvian/multilang): https://t.me/StradniekuCina

Telegram: Riga History Group (Russian): https://t.me/RigaHistoryGroup…

Telegram: School of Scientific Communism/Ruslan Dzugov Channel (Russian section): https://t.me/rusdzugov

Telegram: Dictatorship of the Proletariat (YT channel of the Russian section of the Political School): https://youtube.com/@user-xk6xj4xm4n

Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic 101: Pre-history to World War II w/ Iskolat