Another episode of Revolutions Podcast out this week: 10.98- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Forward in the USSR

This is another episode in which Mike Duncan includes a lot of different stuff (some episodes can be like that).  There's the international socialist scene, the post World War I diplomatic scene, the final fate of Nestor Makhno, and the political wrangling about the formation of the USSR.

I don't really have a lot to say about this episode other than my usual comments--it was really interesting, and I learned a lot from it.

Other notes:

* Mike compares Stalin to Ben Franklin.  I thought this was interesting.  It adds some balance to the view that the integration of the smaller SSRs into the USSR was Russian hegemony.  

* Mike mentions in this episode that Kerensky was an SR.  I hadn't realized that before I started listening to this podcast.  (Like a lot of people, I had thought Kerensky was one of the liberals, not one of the socialists.)  Although I remember Kerensky being an SR had popped up in the comments section on an episode several months back.  I don't remember Mike himself really making a big deal of Kerensky being an SR during his narrative, however.