Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | Lex Fridman Podcast

Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:10 - Marxism
30:55 - Anarchism
45:52 - The Communist Manifesto
54:51 - Communism in the Soviet Union
1:14:45 - Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
1:24:33 - Stalin
1:31:48 - Holodomor
1:45:38 - The Great Terror
1:58:39 - Totalitarianism
2:09:40 - Response to Darryl Cooper
2:24:49 - Nazis vs Communists in Germany
2:31:11 - Mao
2:36:19 - Great Leap Forward
2:43:20 - China after Mao
2:48:52 - North Korea
2:52:56 - Communism in US
3:00:26 - Russia after Soviet Union
3:11:57 - Advice for Lex
3:19:39 - Book recommendations
3:22:38 - Advice for young people
3:29:29 - Hope

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