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[Dead Ideas] “Russian Serfdom V: Soviet Workfarm vs. Serf Commune: An Interview with Kristaps Andrejsons”, by B. T. Newberg
https://player.megaphone.fm/ADL7735842128?
How did the Soviet kolkhoz, or collective farm, stack up against the serf commune? Here to help us understand is Kristaps Andrejsons from the podcast The Eastern Border. Also, it’s my birthday! Yay!
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A Call to Action – by Lupa
I tend to not get overtly political on this platform very often, but current events necessitate it.
The Environmental Protection Agency is already under attack on multiple fronts. So is the National Park Service. Less than a week in, and the new administration is already trampling over the environmental work of the past several decades like a bunch of drunk tourists deliberately stomping all over ecologically sensitive off-trail areas–or, you know, toppling precariously balanced rock formations because they think it’s funny. Read More
[Dead Ideas] “Russian Serfdom IV: Stories of Serf and Master”, by B. T. Newberg
https://player.megaphone.fm/ADL3736880639?
What was the relationship like between serf and master? Hear chilling first-hand accounts from 19th-century serf autobiographies!
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This Summer’s Eclipse will be Beyond Words!
[Starstuff, Contemplating]
The teen had just learned about the ability of science to bring so much knowledge to his life. Among so many fascinating aspects of reality, he was thinking about solar eclipses – remembering the talk of one elsewhere in the United States just a few years before. How could scientists know the moment, to the fraction of a second, that an eclipse would start and end – and be able to predict that with stunning accuracy decades into the future? So he looked up the eclipse tables – columns of numbers on pages in the backs of some astronomy books (the internet would be seen as science fiction then, if the idea had even came up – which it didn’t). No total eclipses in the United States for the rest of the 1980’s. Looking forward all the way into the 1990’s, still nothing. There, one will be visible in Burma in 1995. How far Read More
[Dead Ideas] “Russian Serfdom III: The Draft and Marriage Negotiations – RPG”, by B. T. Newberg
https://player.megaphone.fm/ADL6750342966?
Experience the horrors of the military draft and the joys (?) of marriage on a Russian serf commune in this role-playing game episode.
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Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Map by Adam McKithern. Maps, references, and more at http://www.deadideas.net.
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