In this episode of History 102, 'WhatIfAltHist' creator Rudyard Lynch and co-host Austin Padgett examine Soviet communism from czarist origins through Stalin's totalitarian brutality to collapse and explore how Marxist ideology created history's most psychologically destructive regime.
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:03:38) French Thinkers on Russia & America
(00:15:52) Sponsor: Shopify
(00:21:00) Czarist Russia - Nobility & Serfdom
(00:26:37) Underground Revolutionary Networks
(00:33:00) World War I - Russia's Breaking Point
(00:44:00) The Russian Revolutions of 1917
(00:47:24) Lenin Seizes Power
(00:51:00) Russian Civil War
(01:09:00) Stalin vs Trotsky
(01:11:38) Stalin's Rise to Power
(01:26:09) Stalin's Economic Plans & Brutal Conditions
(01:52:33) Stalin's Mass Purges & Genocides
(01:54:09) Holodomor - Ukrainian Famine
(02:01:36) The Gulag System
(02:08:09) World War II - Eastern Front
(02:14:12) Post-War Soviet Empire & Iron Curtain
(02:20:27) The Cold War
(02:30:00) Gorbachev & The Collapse (1989-1991)
(02:38:00) Closing
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