Description
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.
In this second and final part we’ll be discussing the post-World War II era of building socialism in Latvia and the Baltics at large. We cover the successes of socialist construction, its weaknesses, and ultimately the downfall of soviet system in Latvia in the early 1990s and how that played out. Iskolat also delves into present day realities of Latvia that don’t always make international news.
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Isoklat twitter: twitter.com/iskolat
Workers' Struggle (English/Latvian/multilang): https://t.me/StradniekuCina
BalticSSRs (Reddit): https://reddit.com/r/BalticSSRs/
Riga History Group (Russian): https://t.me/RigaHistoryGroup…
School of Scientific Communism/Ruslan Dzugov Channel (Russian section): https://t.me/rusdzugov
Dictatorship of the Proletariat (YT channel of the Russian section of the Political School): https://youtube.com/@user-xk6xj4xm4n
Anna Louise Strong's The New Lithuania: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89017381948&seq=5
The Baltic Riddle by Greg Meiksins: https://archive.org/details/TheBalticRiddle
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