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A podcast dedicated to exploring, past, present, and future real world manifestations of Actually Existing Socialism by talking to those who've studied, lived in, or currently live in a socialist country.
Unknown Host hosts Actually Existing Socialism, a history show with 43 episodes published.
After a long hiatus, AES is back — and we're kicking things off with the return of a favorite guest: Holly High ! In this episode, we dive into Holly's latest project, her substack Laos: Revolutions in Reproduction , exp
For this long awaited episode on Vietnam - Jen ( @HowTheRedWasWon ) joins to talk about her recent unique experience of visiting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a country that her grandparents fled from in the 1960s!
Since March of this year I have been the co-host of another podcast called Prolespod (my tenure starts on Episode 49 ). On that show we have been working extensively on producing a special event series known as The Stali
In this fascinating episode Andre Schmid joins to discuss his book " North Korea's Mundane Revolution ". As always on this show, we're covering something new by talking about the early years of the North Korean revolutio
In this fascinating episode Alexander Herbert joins to discuss his book " What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot ". As always on this show, we're covering something new by
In this episode, Samantha Lomb returns as a guest to talk about a recent book she edited entitled: Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985. In Win or Else , the late soviet historian Larry E. Holmes
Gabriel Rockhill joins to talk about a controversial concept for Western socialists: "siege socialism". A term coined by the great Michael Parenti. Unlike most episodes of this show we won't be focusing on a specific cou
Sardana returns to finish our discussion on her recent study published through Ziibiing Lab " Indigenous Diamonds : Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia. " In our discussion we delve int
Sardana Nikolaeava joins this episode to discuss her recent study published through Ziibiing Lab " Indigenous Diamonds : Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia. " In our discussion we delv
In this episode we'll be discussing Sopo's article on Jacobin entitled " How Free-Market Ideologues Dismantled Health Care in Post-Soviet Georgia ". In doing so we will be talking about not only her memories of Soviet Ge
In this episode, Charles Xu of the Qiao Collective (a diaspora Chinese media collective challenging U.S. aggression) joins to walk us through the long history of solidarity between China and Palestine. We do this through
This episode features Dominique Petit-Wagner discussing her masters thesis entitled: "Briefing the Ambassador: Joseph Davies and the U.S. Press Corps in Moscow, 1936-1938." Our discussion focuses on American Ambassador J
This episode features sociologist Dr. Agata Zysiak talking about her recent work "Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland" (2023), which examines first-generation students' struggl
This episode features Zoe Stephens (@Zoediscoversnk), an experienced tour guide to North Korea (DPRK). Using her own experience, knowledge, footage and education - Zoe's goal is to present a image of North Korea that aim
Iskolat, a Latvian communist, returns to teach us more about the shrouded history of Latvia, which was a part of the Soviet Union, officially known as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic continuously from 1944 to 1990.
Iskolat, a Latvian communist, joins to show to teach us about the shrouded history of Latvia, which was a part of the Soviet Union (officially known as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic) continuously from 1944 to 199
Carlos Martinez ( @agent_of_change ) joins the show to talk about his excellent book "The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century". In this final part of a three part discussion we'll be discussing the p
Carlos Martinez ( @agent_of_change ) joins the show to talk about his excellent book "The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century". In this second part of a three part discussion we'll be delving into ho
Carlos Martinez (@agent_of_change) joins the show to talk about his excellent book "The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century". In this first part of this three part discussion on China we'll be delvin
Monica Macias joins the show to discuss her book " Black Girl From Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity " which covers the harrowing tale of her life journey from post-colonial Equatorial Guinea ,where she was born, to fi
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