C Derick Varn of Varnblog returns to restart the Pop the Left series. For this episode we discuss the history and ideas behind DP Costello's 1961 essay, "Voluntarism and Determinism in Bolshevist Doctrine." Were the Mensheviks right? Was the revolution in Russia doomed from the start? 

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