In this opener we set the tone for the series: education, improvement, and vision. This series will be an academic approach to communist stories - primarily ones that use firsthand accounts as they not only tell a better story. First hand accounts also avoid some of the western bias that tends to get conflated with fact when discussing such an "inflammatory" subject. Our first series looks at Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich. If you would like to support the show, snag the book FOR FREE on Audible by signing up using https://audibletrial.com/kds --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyles-communist-book-club/support