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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Utopia Dystopia: The Irish left and Soviet Russia, 1917-43
Description: Recorded January 22, 2018.
A public lecture by Professor Emmet O’Connor (University of Ulster) as part of the lecture series Utopia Dystopia: The Russian Revolution One Hundred Years On. Organised by the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and the Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Professor O'Connor is introduced by Professor John Home.
Immediately following the February 1917 revolution in Russia, Irish Labour identified with the Petrograd Soviet because it opposed the world war and supported the principle of national self-determination. Contact with the Bolsheviks was established after the October revolution and the Irish Labour delegates si...