Was the Soviet Union totalitarian? w/ Robert Thurston https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/23bcf71b-16ff-4fdd-9649-c203ca94692d Robert Thurston, historian of Soviet history, joins the show to talk about his extensive archival research focused on the infamous “Great Terror” or mass arrests of 1937-1938. In doing so Robert rebuts the perrenial anti-communist argument - the claim that the Soviet Union under Stalin was totalitarian! We also discuss the impact his research had on his career, the role CIA, MI5 and other capitalist intelligence services played in the manufacturing of soviet history for western audiences and much more! Robert's Blog: https://thurstrw.wordpress.com/ Robert's Coffee Bussiness: https://www.oxfordcoffee.com/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:53:39 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube Was the Soviet Union totalitarian? w/ Robert Thurston https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/23bcf71b-16ff-4fdd-9649-c203ca94692d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.