Keep Talking Episode 125: Mark Galeotti - Russian History in 60 Minutes
Mark Galeotti is a historian, an essayist, a podcaster, and the author of many books including "A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin."
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(00:00) Intro
(01:00) Czarist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century
(03:50) The Russian Revolution
(08:00) World War I and The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
(11:52) Lenin and Stalin
(17:00) The Great Terror
(21:02) Russia during World War II
(28:15) How close were the Nazis to taking over the Soviet Union?
(29:50) Russia and The Cold War
(37:05) Why Soviets no longer believed in Marxism
(39:35) The life and rise of Vladimir Putin
(45:35) Putin, Yeltsin, and the turn of the century
(51:56) How do we misunderstand the modern Russian government?
(55:05) Alexei Navalny
(59:20) The war with Ukraine