Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism.
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0:00 – Introduction
3:10 – Marxism
30:55 – Anarchism
45:52 – The Communist Manifesto
54:51 – Communism in the Soviet Union
1:14:45 – Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
1:24:33 – Stalin
1:31:48 – Holodomor
1:45:38 – The Great Terror
1:58:39 – Totalitarianism
2:09:40 – Response to Darryl Cooper
2:24:49 – Nazis vs Communists in Germany
2:31:11 – Mao
2:36:19 – Great Leap Forward
2:43:20 – China after Mao
2:48:52 – North Korea
2:52:56 – Communism in US
3:00:26 – Russia after Soviet Union
3:11:57 – Advice for Lex
3:19:39 – Book recommendations
3:22:38 – Advice for young people
3:29:29 – Hope
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