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Episode 4 - Setting the Stage

The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union

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Why Nicholas II Started the Russo-Japanese War

Nicholas's motives for war, imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea, and miscalculation.

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