From Here to History
The history podcast where Chris Swanson and Jason Weidert discuss events and people of the past with as much openness, understanding, and fairness as we can muster. Our only agenda is to inform in an entertaining and engaging way.
We teach high school, after all, and that's a tough audience. Our hope is that if we can keep teenagers interested we may be able to pull off a worthwhile podcast, too.
We try to release one episode every month. But we're teachers with busy young families so if we go a little longer than that between episodes, bear with us!
From Here to History
The Cold War, Pt 1: Marx & The Bolsheviks
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The Cold War was the great ideological conflict of the 20th century. In the first of our multi-part series, we will discuss one of the two ideological belligerents in that war: communism. We try to describe its appeal, trace its deep roots in western history, take a look at its modern prophet Karl Marx, and briefly examine how the Bolsheviks as Marxist foot soldiers created the world's first communist state in Russia.
For further reading:
Lenin: the man, the dictator, and the master of terror by Victor Sebestyen
Lenin: A biography by Robert Service
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
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