Episode 8: Soviet Internationalism, Third World Marxism and World Literature with Vijay Prashad & Ian Almond

Our guests for today's episode are author, educator and journalist Vijay Prashad as well as world literature professor and author Ian Almond.  With Vijay Prashad, we discuss the basic idea of one of his recent books Red Star Over the Third World (2019, Pluto Press) - how the 1917 Russian Revolution and then the seventy year existence of the Soviet Union directly inspired Third World Marxism and anti-colonial struggles during the 20th century, as well as what this century of Soviet internationalism and the collapse of the socialist world mean today. With Ian Almond we explore how 20th century Soviet internationalism and it's anti-communist opposite both influenced and manifested themselves in the global literary imagination and more.