The Decline and Fall of Soviet Economics

About this episode

The episode reviews two books discussing Soviet economics and Stalin's role in international relations during the Cold War.

Dimes and Judas swing into a review of the book “Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II” by Sean McMeekin. An exhaustive exploration of Stalin’s agitation of international conflict for the Soviet Union’s benefit, it lays out a model for international relations that explains the role of Communism in the 20th century as much more realistically antagonistic. This leads into a discussion of the book “Building a Ruin” by Yakov Feygin. There they learn about the history of Soviet economic reform during the cold war, the market demands that handicapped their success, and how the Communist model was forced to cynically converge towards technocracy like everyone else. Taken from Episodes #297 – You should do THAT THING to YOU KNOW WHO & #298 – A Very Special Sola GPTuah Timestamps: 00:08 – “Stalin’s War” Discussion Begins 05:31 – Staling was Not an Aberration in the History of Soviet Leaders 11:49 – The Red Army and Soviet International as an Offensive Force 20:18 – The Nature of War is Everyone’s Getting Raped and Shot 24:45 – The Class-Against-Class Doctrine and Exporting Revolution 30:39 – Soviet Lebensraum 32:38 – Roosevelt Bullied by Stalin 39:30 – Stalin Refuses the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dimes, Judas

Topics covered

• Soviet economics
• Stalin's influence
• Cold War reforms
• Communism
• International relations
• Technocracy

Keywords

• Soviet Union
• Stalin
• economics
• Cold War
• Communism
• international conflict
• technocracy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II, Building a Ruin

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