# 23 - Prologue to Brest-Litovsk

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Podcast: [The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sickle-and-the-hammer-a-socialist-history-of-the-soviet-union-7173656)
Published: 2026-03-05T11:00:00+00:00
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