130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown
History That Doesn't Suck
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The Unrest in Russia
In 1617, soldiers and the workers start striking in Petrograd. In October of 1916, Justin Petrograd, which was renamed, had 250,000 strikers. A quarter of a million people in one city are striking. That's huge. And with that quarter million people, come rumors, come, you know, transgressions of some felt real or perceived doesn't matter. These are people who are getting angrier and angrier and the troops that used to be around to put these sorts of things down have all been occupied at the front. They're all a little occupied at theFront. They are. Right. So... Yeah.
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