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#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
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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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() – Introduction
() – Marxism
() – Anarchism
() – The Communist Manifesto
() – Communism in the Soviet Union
() – Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
() – Stalin
() – Holodomor
() – The Great Terror
() – Totalitarianism
() – Response to Darryl Cooper
() – Nazis vs Communists in Germany
() – Mao
() – Great Leap Forward
() – China after Mao
() – North Korea
() – Communism in US
() – Russia after Soviet Union
() – Advice for Lex
() – Book recommendations
() – Advice for young people
() – Hope
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