Hinge Points Episode 5: Goodbye, Lenin (Patreon)

Matt and Danny Bessner, from the American Prestige podcast, explore one of the most important counterfactuals in the history of the 20th century left: what if Vladimir Lenin had died before he and the Bolsheviks were able to seize power in Russia. They explore the issue from a variety of perspectives, examining in what ways this might have informed the history of socialism as both an international and domestic project. Throughout, they ask: Might the left have been in a better position if the Soviet Union never existed?