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Kerenskiy was actually a Trudovik. i.e. a gradualist counterpart to the Socialist Revolutionaries.

During the Revolution, the Socialist Revolutionaries split more than 6 ways:

  1. Maximalists who wanted to exterminate the exploiting classes
  2. Right Socialist Revolutionaries, who wanted to continue the imperialist war.
  3. Center Socialist Revolutionaries, who supported the now-revolutionary war since February 1917 and opposed the takeover by the sovyets. They controlled most of the party lists, so they had the largest share in the Constituent Assembly elections.
  4. Left Socialist Revolutionaries, who supported the now-revolutionary war since October 1917 and supported the takeover by the sovyets. They allied with left Bolsheviks.

And although the main S-R platform allowed a lot of regional autonomy, some national parties broke away from the main party,

  1. Right Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionaries. They mainly supported the Rada and the Directory.
  2. Left Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionaries such as Nikifor Hryhorev. They mainly supported a pro-sovyet insurgency, and pogroms, lots of pogroms. They initially allied with Left Ukrainian Social-Democrats such as Zelenyy, but eventually-- after Hryhorev’s death and Volokh’s break with the Directory-- allied with the Bolsheviks.
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I don’t expect anyone to watch something this long, but the few minutes starting at 8:45 were particularly interesting.

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https://twitter.com/urbanthreshold/status/941650177273815041

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See the endless arguments about how the Nazis were “socialist.” Because they couldn’t possibly be liars. I like to counter by pointing out that they killed labor organizers, and asking whether the Juche Regime is “democratic,” and the Holy Roman Empire was “Roman.”

And I’m not convinced that these institutional strengths persist. The Soviets were terrible at military deception ops in 1941, but brilliant by the time they recovered Kyiv in '43 or Minsk in '44.

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Eichenwald is problematic, and this isn’t new info, but fuck people who think that McDs and Walmart are anything but evil.

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From 2016.

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Still at it…

Hordes of authoritarian white liberals in the comment thread.

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