The Soviet Avant-Garde: Theater, Arts, & Culture in the Early USSR
Revolutions do more than change governments, they transform the way people imagine the world. In the years following the October Revolution, the Soviet Union became one of the most exciting laboratori...
26 Nov 20251h 5min
Face the Village! The Soviet Peasantry, the Party and the State
The Bolsheviks came to power in the name of the working class, but they inherited a country that was overwhelmingly peasant. In the early 1920s, roughly four out of every five Soviet citizens lived in...
29 Sep 20251h 6min
Workers in a Workers’ State: The Soviet Working Class and the State in the NEP Era
The Russian Revolution was carried out in the name of the working class. The Bolsheviks claimed to represent its interests, Soviet power was built upon its political leadership, and Marxist theory pla...
14 Maj 20251h 15min
Not by Politics Alone: Social Life, Law, Religion and Education in the Early USSR
Millions of people who lived through the founding years of the Soviet Union experienced the profound changes brought about by momentous events in history, but beyond the battlefields and debating hall...
5 Maj 20251h 17min
One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward: The New Economic Policy of the USSR
After years of revolution, civil war, foreign intervention, and economic collapse, the young Soviet state had survived, but at an enormous cost. Industry had ground to a halt, agricultural production ...
16 Apr 202558min
Soviet Authority is Organized Civil War: The Founding Documents of the Soviet Union
Constitutions are often thought of as dry legal documents; mere collections of articles, clauses, and technical language that seem far removed from the drama of history; however, in revolutionary time...
5 Apr 20251h 3min
In the Name of Direct and Merciless Struggle: The Russian Revolution and Civil War
Between 1917 and 1921, Russia experienced one of the most dramatic upheavals in modern history. In the space of just a few years, an empire that had stood for more than three centuries collapsed, two ...
4 Apr 20251h 5min
The Children of Fickle Fate
From the failed uprising of the Decembrists in 1825 to the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917, the Russian revolutionary tradition evolved through nearly a century of struggle, sacrifice, debate, a...
2 Apr 20251h
