
Revolutions
Season 12 premiered October 20, 2024 – a nonfictional account of The Martian Revolution of 2247.
Mike Duncan is taking everything he's learned from 12 seasons of historical revolutions - the repeating arcs, characters, ideas, events, and patterns which all revolutions seem to follow - and created a fictional history of the Martian Revolution of 2247. The series is written from the point of view of a historian working hundreds of years after the Martian Revolution and will be presented in the style and format of previous seasons of Revolutions. It will look, sound, and feel like a Mike Duncan history podcast…but will instead be a fictional narrative of a gripping science-fiction epic.
Revolutions is a podcast that covers the great political revolutions that have defined the modern world. Each season is a long-form narrative covering a different defining revolutionary epoch across three hundred years of history. It explores in great detail the people, ideas, and events that challenged and toppled outdated regimes and replaced them with new governments. After more than 350 episodes over ten seasons of narrative nonfiction, the 12th season is a fictional account of the Martian Revolution of 2247.
*BREAKING NEWS*
In the fall of 2025, the Revolutions podcast will return to its roots by diving into the great revolutions of the 20th century. The new run of episodes begins with the story of Irish Independence, a dramatic upheaval in the wake of WWI that saw Ireland free itself from centuries of English rule. Full of inspiring personalities, tragic events, and thrilling triumphs, Irish Independence is one of the most gripping events in revolutionary history. Future seasons will plunge ahead through the turbulent 20th century, and include the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Algerian War of Independence.
Latest episodes

Dec 20, 2021 • 34min
10.80- The Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion
Time to play the wild card.

Dec 13, 2021 • 34min
10.79- Reds and Whites
Time to head into the final lap...

4 snips
Dec 6, 2021 • 34min
10.78- Neither War Nor Peace
What's better than war and peace? Neither war nor peace!

5 snips
Nov 29, 2021 • 32min
10.77- Brest Litovsk
Dance dance revolution.

Nov 23, 2021 • 31min
10.76- Liberty or Victory
Can anyone guess which one Lenin and the Bolsheviks will choose?

Nov 15, 2021 • 34min
10.75- The People's Commissars
The Bolsheviks caught the car. Now they had to figure out what to do with it.

6 snips
Nov 9, 2021 • 42min
10.74- The Great October Socialist Revolution
We made it.

Nov 2, 2021 • 32min
10.73- Zeno's Revolution
Wherein we keep moving toward the October Revolution by progressing halfway to halfway to halfway to halfway... Link: Event w/ Dr. Faith Hillis for her book Utopia's Discontents.

Oct 18, 2021 • 29min
10.72- The Decision
Comrade Lenin says don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Link to details on the talk/signing in Pasadena!

5 snips
Oct 10, 2021 • 29min
10.71- The Democratic Conference
Links to tour details... Minneapolis Oct 11: Magers and Quinn Naperville Oct 12: Anderson's Bookshop Madison/Verona Oct 13: Kismet Books Milwaukee Oct 14: Boswells Book Company Pasadena Oct 27: Vromans Bookstore