130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown
History That Doesn't Suck
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The West's Fear of the Bolsheviks
The West is terrified of those ideas then spreading because America had a working class that was sometimes a little bit upset. And so this would end up going into the first big red scare that the US ever faced under the Palmer raids and others in the late late 19 teens early 1920s. The labor movement in Britain had some links to that as well, right, to these socialist principles but they were far more radical and forgiving of the Bolsheviks methods back then.
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