but not lenin. lenin did not believe in charity. he believed that the only answer for russia's working class and peasants was revolution. he said, at the time, the overthrow of the tsar's monarchy, this bulwark of the landowners, is their only hope for some sort of decent life, for escape from hunger and unending poverty. lenin was convinced that hunger and misery could be used as a tool to undermine tsarist rule and lead to revolution. now that lenin and the bolsheviks were in power, they waged a war on the peasants. they forced the peasants to hand over their grain at gunpoint. they needed the grain to feed the workers in the cities and the red army soldiers. the peasants, obviously, resisted. they hid the grain down the well or in fake walls in their cottages. they even created an army, a peasant army, to try to fight back. they also reduced the amount of land under cultivation. this meant that there was no cushion when the drought hit. there were no reserves that anyone could fall back on. by march of 1921, lenin was terrified.

there was, for lenin, no third way. the slide i used to represent wilson's conundrum abroad. power,ser representing lenin representing the inevitable revolutionary response to power, and wilson coming into the war and coming to paris to try to hold the fort against both of these threats. what were the main components of this wilsonian third way in the context of the paris peace conference? simply, the league of nations and the principle of self-determination let's take each of them in order. let's examine them in the context of this framework i have set up. the crucial point here is that in wilson's original conception of the league, it was not simply to be a body that would coordinate among individual sovereign nationstates, which is what became later. rather in his original conception, it was to be an instrument in which states would pool some aspects of their respective sovereignties. not unlike the european union. i should say the european union before brexit. we will see how that goes. case, supranational political structure in which nationstates would pool sovereignty.

. -- lenin, but he knew enough not to have any sympathy for his program. he represented concentrated power. it is worth noting that they agreed on some things. that is, they both shared the hade the established order to be transformed to make power more accountable. but beyond that, they parted waves -- ways. lenin, the choice was stark. either you have reaction and imperialism or you have revolution. there was no third way. this is the slide i used to represent wilson's conundrum abroad. the kaiser representing unaccountable power, lenin representing the revolutionary response to unaccountable power and wilson coming into the war and then to paris to try and hold the fort against both of these threats. ok. so what were the main components ?f this wilsonian third way put simply, they were the league of nations and the principle of self-determination. let's take each in order and examine them in the context of this framework that i have set up for you. first, the league. is thatial point here in wilson's original conception of the league, it is not simply t

lenin was terrified that without food, the government would collapse.here would be no more interest in the bolshevik government. he set up the time, "if there is a harvest, then everyone will hunger a little and the government will be saved. otherwise, since we cannot take anything from people who do not have the means of satisfying their own hunger, the government will perish." in westhoover was born 1874 to awa in 19 -- family of quakers. he was sent off to live with an uncle in oregon after being orphaned. the891, he enrolled in first class at stanford university and graduated with a degree in geology. he was an average student with average grades and left with average expectations. none of his fellow students held out much hope for a right future for herbert hoover. he went off first to the gold mines of the australian outbreak , a place he described as pure hell before moving to china. quickly he rose the ranks of the international mining business. he had a rare talent as an administrator and he had a way of finding new opportunities no one had see

jason: and lenin says the only way to turn the clock back is -- move beyond the sources of world war is revolution and he saw russia as the beginning of a worldwide revolution that would not only take place in the capitals of countries themselves -- capitalist countries themselves, but in the colonized world. it was a global vision. for the big three, we can even bring in italy because there will be so much turmoil in italy, that would be mussolini coming next. how do you think that the three leaders of the western allies, how did they make sense of this and what did they think they should respond to this? mike: there is a way to interpret the paris peace conference as that the western power has now shifted that , germany is no longer the great power competitor but it is the soviet union. there is a way to understand wilson's 14 points and the treaty of versailles as a response to that. if you want to read it, it includes a lot about protection of labor and the right of women to vote even if they are not allowed to vote in the states in which they live. it talks about guaranteeing mi

and lenin gives his overriding vision to revolutionaries, that the world war was not a tragedy, it was not an aberration, it wasn't that europe went crazy, this is a necessary outgrowth of what he called imperialism. imperialism is a worldwide system, so there is no desire to go back to the status quo, which a lot of socialists during the war say, we should go back to what we had prior to june 28, 1914. mike: that is like now january 2020. trying to turn the clock back. jason: and lenin says the only beyond are going to move the sources of the world war is revolution, so he saw the revolution in russia is the beginning of a worldwide revolution that would not only take place at the capitalist countries themselves but in the , colonized world. it was really global, a global vision. three, we can even bring in italy in place of orlando, because there will be so much turmoil in italy, that would be mussolini coming next. mike: -- mike, how do you think that the three leaders of the western allies, how did they make sense of this and what did they think they should respond to this? mike: t

once lenin, trotsky, and the bolshevik seized power in 1917, they published all of the secret treatieshat imperial russia had signed with britain and france, expecting a victory, and who would get what in terms of ottoman territory, they were very glad to show countries around the world that this is what this war is being fought over and lenin gives his overriding vision to revolutionaries, that the world war was not a tragedy, it was not an aberration, it wasn't that europe went crazy, this is a necessary outcome of imperialism. imperialism is a worldwide system. there is no desire to go back to the status quo, which a lot of socialists during the war say, we should go back to what we had prior to june 28, 1914. mike: that is like now january 2020. trying to turn the clock back. jason: and lenin says the only way to turn the clock back is revolution and he saw russia as the beginning of a worldwide revolution that would not only take place in the capitals of countries themselves but in the colonized world. it was a global vision. for the big three, we can even bring in italy because t

lenin gives an overriding vision to revolutionaries that the world war was not a tragedy. it was it wasn't that europe went crazy. this was a necessary growth of imperialism. it's a worldwide system and so there's no -- there's really no desire to go back to the status quo which a lot of socialists, in fact, during the war say. we should go back to what we had prior to june 28th, 1914. let's go back. >> just try to turn the clock back. if we could go back. the only you're going to move beyond sources of the world war is revolution. he saw the revolution in russia as the beginning of a worldwide revolution. that would not only take place in the capitalist countries themselves but in the colonized world. it was a global vision. for the big three, we can even bring in here italy and say orlando because there's going to be so much turmoil in italy. how did they make sense of this and how they thought what should we do to respond to this? >> it's interesting. there's a way to interpret as the understanding among the western powers. great power competition has shifted. germany i

lenin never said anything like that. but that is one of the ways government health care is proposed as being too radically communist for the u.s. that's created a very unusual situation in the u.s. for an advanced industrial democracy in the second half of the 20th century, which is all health care had been private until the 1960's which has been very limited. and today, that is an ongoing problem. medical aid insurance is tied to employment in the u.s., in a way it is not tied necessarily in that way in other countries. sam? >> [indiscernible] of politics issue. prof. lebovic: yes. it lines with contemporary concerns. the debate in the 1940's is the same debate being had today, which is will the american people support single-payer health care or is too radical and will get you tainted as a communist? iin the 1940's, that's what happened. the limits of what is proposalable are defined in part by these accusations of communism. on the other hand, the type of spending that is very justifiable is military and national defe

my status in the soviet union and when we were forced to learn marxism leninism but some of those pieces are still. relevant so the millennial space about imperialism as a high stage or ethical is when he described the reasons why 1st world war erupted i think it's very it's very big a risk that confrontation between the united states and china will lead us to something play that free world war one atmosphere this is not about ideology that was a dog breed. i mean this. mentioned a couple of words and let me. bring to attention one more conflict that is the american war for the patents from the british which was also spurred by the disagreements over money over taxes now the americans prevailed and ultimately the mantle of global leadership from the british and its strange started but i one day resigned now i'm american clash is not so much about an abstainer global had germany but about who gets to be the new. east china really an adversary to the western world rather than its natural successor its natural heir. yes exactly and i'm sure the chinese actually would prefer not to be engage

british authorities but then left wing aqua dorian president correll was replaced by neo liberal goon lenin merino in 27 team rayno was a trojan horse who knew he could sell julian a song for a good price he basically viewed a song like a mickey mantle rookie card if i find the right buyer for this they could be worth millions actually turns out a saunders worth $4200000000.00 with a big just weeks apart from allowing a song to be arrested by british authorities the international monetary fund approved a 4200000000 dollar loan for aqua door on april 11th 2019 british police raided the ecuadorian embassy and dragged us anjan to a waiting van it was the 1st time in history a government has allowed a foreign law enforcement agency to enter its sovereign territory to arrest one of its citizens sonntag god as one dorrian citizenship just a year earlier so do it and still to this day recess resides in belmarsh prison in london as the u.s. tries to get him actually dieted to stand trial in one of our kangaroo courts where i'm sure he'll resist receive a fair trial absolutely america has a long his

exact minister of drug ministry draft a couple of cops striding in front of it and that's it and yet lenin would have known what to do they didn't have a live in and you know although in one of these books he talks about how. you know we should have done it just as an example or react but the fact is it didn't occur to people in the because some of this. is got to do with the fact that there was such a strong anarchist presence in may $68.00 so the state is not the thing that they're going to be focused on but it was even tried an entry of in the leader of the trotskyist spoke about how it never even occurred to us. to do this. because like so many revolutions it just starts up and it didn't moves under its own power in a certain direction and the direction of this one was really not toward state power if you look at the student demands they were so focused on the individual it on freeing the individual and on freeing speech. that notion of seizing power which is real it is sort of like the movement in the 1960 s. having a significant cultural fact right in liberating people for exact stri

from china makes them angry you know it's you know they're talking about propaganda well a guy named lenin to protect themselves keep going let me think maybe i could just be happy till i had get them. ok you get from starting to get a move later churches stumpy get together not what contemporary politicians can actually confront this request we're facing now you know they can if they want this matter of political choice you compare a man and see. what you need. now you can mean the difference kevin is the difference between then and now is it then you had people that had courage you had people that had some for and you know it even stalin i would say ok i mean if you look at the soviet ideology dealing with the bush wild west and you know because it the world was absolutely shots when the the announcement of the nazi so be agreement was made public i mean because after decades of demonizing capitalism and all that someone had to flip on a dime and say for our survival we're going to have to work with these 2 characters you know roosevelt and result and churchill here i mean the point is i

you know with kennedy and john len lenin -- john lennon, a lot is out there and hasn't been put in place. one thing about nonfiction, an awful lot of it is written for academics or people who are worried about, you know, we've got to get every single-- u.s. grant. a like a thousand pages on u.s. grant. some people, they don't want a thousand pages on u.s. grant. the house of kennedy reads more like a novel, you know, it's 400-some pages and very readable and moves. it's not everything about the kennedys, but it's an awful lot. people that know the story, they go there's a lot i didn't know and refreshed me and reminded me of a lot of the stuff i didn't know. >> how do you get into children's books? >> had a kid. had a boy, jack. when jack was -- and he was an interesting little dude. he was four or five, i was going out to l.a. and said, are you going to miss me? and he said, well, not really. and i was kind of taken aback and he goes, love means you can never be apart. and i'm like, wow. and i told him right there. if you say something in our house, i know own that line so i can use it,

understand one's watchful gaze some 10000 soldiers of all ranks marched past the lenin muslim. generals who comes who had led the offensive against berlin took center stage. it's not so nice done day to get us all for the russian people was the embodiment of their victory this large heavy man on his powerful horse. side official calls the flip side was that his military career as well as his political influence in general are now over because stalin is generally single of course needed to be perceived as the true architect of this victory he's a sequenced i don't. there could be no other narrative that. stalin was at the height of his power with the victory over hitler's reich all of eastern europe had fallen into his hands the generally simos soldiers were now his most loyal supporters with their help he would consolidate the soviet union superpower status and stand up to the united states in a new conflict that was already looming in the cold war the years when hundreds of thousands of red army soldiers had been sent to their deaths seemed forgotten. the picture was very diff

more information on lenin and stalin. original banners and flags. something you don't see much anymore, a map of the soviet union. the soviet union i want to say went through 11 or 12 time zones. this is one of the last exhibits about the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the soviet union, what took place in 1989 and 1991 when the cold war was ending. we have a picture of gorbachev along with ronald reagan, two folks that were there and were instrumental in the cold war. president reagan gets all the credit ending the cold war, but the cold war actually ended when president bush was in office. it's important for children and students to learn about the cold war. in order to understand this war on terror we are living in, you have to understand how we got here. i'm going to give you one example of how this connects. in 1979 the soviets invade afghanistan, it's the afghan war. it was an unpopular war in the soviet union, and many of their soldiers are being killed by the rebels who were fighting the invaders. one of the rebels was osama bin

was not at all see where lenin son had fought where they'd left one month look at the visitor for out and if so maybe not all that the kind of math is going on michelle young black man. and for me that sullivan's great achievement is persuading the group of people to work with him and once he's got those resources then he can fight the crusaders effectively and really try to recover jerusalem. was on a killing method you had local county met then you were there don't get me. what do i have. most of all of them is that me are you i don't know much the omen of the. as the muslim front was uniting. the leprous king of jerusalem. baldwin the 4th. faced problems controlling his vessels. who are in danger in his truce with alive the. one looking at the man let the bomb out of the trough oh and of whom mr know this at all he and carter. and you know the shuttle again your site there other than i will tell it here. many of. the and hush. out of the nest if you'd been here the most there really are but was the main. says he. lied with the knights templar. the most powerful and extreme of the c

things have become in this country that even the virus becomes a divisive issue based on part of leninismas in his role and i was with my friend benjamin for two nights before election when he closed down their country. he got universal support money close down and now, he's opened up and he's getting support, not on partisan grounds. people still vote against him, but the issue of the disease has become partisan. i think that is true in most of the cases in america. everything is partisan. >> and it doesn't attack democrats or group level guns, liberals separately. we have to do two things. public health and save our economy. and strike the appropriate balance. >> you bring up the good point, the president to accelerate the way we produce a vaccine and you would think both sides of the aisle would stand up and applaud, but they don't, but they don't. alan dershowitz, great job my thank you for joining us tonight. we really do appreciate it. all right, coming up, casey mcfarlane and reince priebus will await you in on the scandal that is rocking washington and the swamp. as well as the le

setting aside political differences, vladimir lenin's new soviet government asked herbert hoover's americanelief administration for help. next on american history tv, historian douglas smith gives an illustrated talk about the story based on his book, "the russian job: the forgotten story of how america saved the soviet union from ruin." hillwood estate, museum and gardens hosted this event.

thousands of peoplpe took to the streets monday in cities across the country protesting president lenin spending cuts.ic union say low-income workers who have lost their jobs, while the rich are being protected. at least 2000 marched in the capital quito. marches also took place in the city of guayaquil, the epicenter of the pandemic in ecuador. in mexico city, health care workers blocked main roads wednesday demanding the government provide them with pepersonal protective equipmenet amid the ongoing epidemic. for uniforms.d we are asked to wash our masks after me and my colleagues have even died. we want the authorities to listen to us.. we want equipmenent to be of the work. amy: back in the u united state, president trump accused a reporter of trying to be politically corrrrect for weweag a face mask during a press briefing at the white house on tuesday. trump's comment came a day after he shared a tweet mocking joe biden for wearing a mask during a memorial day event in delaware. pres. trump: biden can wear a mask, but he was standing outside with his wife, perfect conditions, perfe

president lenin morayno says austerity measures will save four billion dollars which, is needed to control the capital, keeto. these rallies took place on monday. many holding up signs that say "no cuts". protesters are demanding greater government assistance. the pandemic has left 150,000 people unemployed. ecuador is among the worst hit by coronavirus in latin america. more than 3,000 people have died and 33,000 people have been infected. hospitals are overwhelmed. we showed you these images last month of mass graves being dug in gwigha—keel the centre of ecuador‘s outbreak. bodies were dumped on the streets and left in people's homes because cemeteries didn't have the capacity to collect them. concern though has shifted here, to the capital keeto, where 2.8 million people are under lockdown. lets hear from the mayor. translation: the maximum peak of this pandemic seen around the world starts to happen after day 70, so that would be around may the 26th for quito. we are doing follow—up, and tests will be carried out throughout the city. we will be the city with the largest number of test

last week, president lenin moreno announced public spending cuts which included the closure of seven. he has said one hundred and fifty thousand jobs had —— he has said 150,000 jobs had been lost because of the virus. health officials in mexico have reported over 2,000 new cases of coronavirus and 239 deaths. this brings the country's totals number of cases to over 71,000. this daily death toll comes as the country eases lockdown measures and reopens the economy, particularly factories near the border with the us. china has reported seven new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the mainland, down from 11 a day earlier. officials say the new infections were imported cases, involving travellers from overseas. the death toll to date in the mainland stands at unchanged at a,63a. saudi arabia is to loosen restrictions from thursday and eliminate curfews from the entire country except mecca from june 21. the use of mosques, shops, malls and cafes will also slowly increase. the kingdom is under a total curfew to cover the eid festival. in hong kong, carrie lam, the chief executive, has been d

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dismissed a national health insurance proposal as "not essentially different from that conceived by lenin and stalin in the russian five-year plans." others compared the government dictation of the new deal to chattel slavery, which is a theme i will not develop in my talk but one i will be happy to questions about. rather than depicting the new deal as an outgrowth of democratic processes, they treated new deal totalitarianism as dictatorial and an imposition. shapesnts came in many from the binary point of view from new deal enterprise or's the form it initially took , mattered little. all collectivism ended inexorably in the dictatorial direction. hoover and other free enterpriseers employed metaphors before the 1944 manifesto "the road to serfdom" to describe the slippery slope to which the weakening of free enterprise inescapably led. and in thisprogress inescapable straitjacket of government control the new deal , on the road to tell ted and has started us on the road to tell ted and -- to totalitarianism. employing alarmist rhetoric and depicting freedom when exposed to statism as

american nationalism is the melting pot that agreed newcomers with a statue of liberty not a statue of lenin here we are in the covid-19 moment. i wrote this before where we are now. but i feel like it applies even more today if you want to understand where our country is. griff: my favorite line english major at ole miss william faulkner's school of english. this is the line that stands out. my very favorite one and this is a great read. you have say have you ever met someone who was least informed about human nature but most adamant about her ideology? well, can you bet you either met a millennial or an elitist and you go on to say that arrogance plus leftism equals elitism and that's something we certainly suffer from in this time and age. it's a great read. pete, congratulations. >> thank you, griff. griff: i'm a harsh critic. what makes it so good is that it is authentic. you actually believe what's in this book. and forget where you come from politically. if you want to know what pete hegseth thinks, read this book. pete: griff, thank you very much. i appreciate it. jedediah: i said it

lenin had been encouraged, they put them on the train that went to st. petersburg. in many senses, western forces allied with a treaty in 1918 and was a background for the german attack on the western front in 1918, the new agreement. some people who were geopolitical thinkers, strategic thinkers, of course, you must bear in mind that eisenhower's background with world war ii is he was in the army planning division of war. the actual danger, the most important strategic danger confronting the west was the idea of the combination of germany in the soviet union. again, not a surprise. a historian writing in 1904 emphasized the threat posed by possible german-russian coalitions and indeed, this seemed to be the key element. the allies go into russia and it does not work. they are, as we often see, if you intervene on behalf of a weak force and the russians were weak and an unpopular force, it does not bring you any success just because you apply strong military. the actual intervention did contain soviet expansion. as a result of the intervention, finland, latvia, lith

afropessism say here is the practice, the way that che guevara or fidel castro bought marxism or leninism, here's the praxis . we're not there yet. >> you had mentioned earlier, here's a question that mentions phenomena as well. how with your ring own experience with the black struggle would you explain south africa is not avoiding the national pitfall that are known to clearly explain half a century beforethe resolution of that struggle ? >> andy, could you do something for me ? can you see what the question is that person is asking because i can talk aboutsouth africa and i'd be off on a tangent and our timewould be up so help me out . what is the motive ? >> how is your own experience in south africa would you say that they have fallen into the trap essentially that the only way up was that they could possiblyget through ? >> say again. >> in an ideal resolution of the struggle. >> i would say to this person to really read two things. my first book, how we deal with that question. so i know i'm just being honest with you. this book is done and invested, i've marketed people like you on