Show threadStrypeySep 8, 2024

"In a way the Bolshevik revolution created the 20th century. It created all of the far right reactions to it. I don't know how far we can go with this counterfactual, whether with a Left-SR revolution you don't get Hitler but... maybe you don't?"

#DavidRunciman, 2024

"I think you don't, and I think it's much easier with counterfactuals to identity what you don't get than what you do get."

#EdwardActon, 2024

https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/66d99b6cd4991eb8a6d39ac6

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What If… The Russian Revolution Hadn’t Been Bolshevik? | Past Present Future

StrypeySep 8, 2024

"David talks to the historian of Russia Edward Acton about how the Russian Revolution might have unfolded if the Left SRs and not the Bolsheviks had come out on top. Could Lenin have been sidelined? Might the Terror have been avoided? And what would it have meant to the wider world if revolutionary socialism had been liberated from Marxist communism?"

https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/66d99b6cd4991eb8a6d39ac6

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#RussianRevolution #LibertarianSocialism #EdwardActon #Bolsheviks #Leninism

What If… The Russian Revolution Hadn’t Been Bolshevik? | Past Present Future