Bolshevik Revolution
How did a revolution for the people become a dictatorship in disguise?
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47 mins
Explore how the collapse of old empires during World War 1 set the stage for the Bolshevik Revolution, where promises of equality turned into centralized control. Discover how Lenin and his followers seized power through violence and built a state that claimed to serve workers but ruled through fear.
Ep 1:
The Empire's Last Breath
As empires crumble across Europe in 1917, a once-invisible Bolshevik faction quietly maneuvers from the margins toward inevitable power in revolutionary Russia.
Ep 2:
The Winter Palace Falls
Lenin stages a daring coup disguised as democracy, seizing Petrograd's Winter Palace while Moscow erupts into brutal street fighting and the Kremlin burns.
Ep 3:
War Without Sides
As czarist loyalists and ragtag revolutionaries clash in a chaotic civil war, the Bolsheviks pursue a radical universal vision that must reckon with fierce nationalism.
Ep 4:
Exporting the Revolution
Moscow dreams of igniting global revolution across Asia while a new Soviet machine takes shape, built on ideology, intrigue, and ruthless power struggles.
Ep 5:
The Iron Price of Utopia
Stalin's industrial dream demands a horrifying price in blood and famine, closing out a revolution whose promises of liberation curdled into terror and legacy.
Discussions (20)
Sienna
Level 5 · 9 mo agoCalling it a coup ignores the mass support though
Dino
Level 4 · 8 mo agoMensheviks getting their own rally hijacked by the Bolsheviks is the definition of a skill issue.
Eugene
Level 9 · 8 mo agoThe March 1918 landing in Murmansk is accurate.
