Gabriel Custodiet speaks with economist Peter Boettke about the details surrounding the Soviet economy that Lenin, and then Stalin, attempted to create in their utopian hubris.
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→ Main book discussed: The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: the Formative Years, 1918-1928
→ https://www.realitiesofsocialism.org/
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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:00 – What were the first things Lenin did?
7:00 – Did the Soviet economy work initially?
20:35 – Shortage economies
22:15 – Removing sex roles affects Soviet economy?
27:10 – Did the USSR have its own military-industrial complex?
28:30 – Any interesting statistics come out of USSR?
32:35 – Did Trofim Lysenko kill 55 million people?
35:50 – Did the US fight on the wrong side during WWII?
37:35 – Why is von Mises so important?
44:00 – Is economics itself the problem?
51:45 – Poland and Estonia
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
