Started: Revolutions Season 10: The Russian Revolution by Mike Duncan

Part of working through the Revolutions Podcast, as mentioned HERE.  I plan to listen to this 3 times through (I'll keep track of my progress at the bottom of this post), and then at the end give it a video review.

Also, small addendum: as I've mentioned in my started video, I had long been dipping in and out of The Revolutions Podcast before I finally started systematically working my way through the whole series.  So a lot of these seasons are re-listens or partial re-listens.

In the case of The Russian Revolution, I've actually reviewed half of it on this blog already.  This was because during the Covid lockdown, I got the urge to start blogging more, and I posted mini reviews of each episode.

For those reviews, see below:

* 10.63- Abdication

* 10.64- The Origin of Dual Power

* 10.65- The Dawn of a New Day

* 10.66- Finland Station (Wherein the Bolsheviks call for an Uber.)

* 10.67- The April Crisis

* 10.68 The June Offensive

* 10.69- The July Days

* 10.70- The Kornilov Affair

* 10.71- The Democratic Conference

* 10.72- The Decision

* Episode 10.73 Episoded Delayed Until Next Week

* 10.73- Zeno's Revolution 

* 10.74- The Great October Socialist Revolution (We made it.)

* 10.75- The People's Commissars: The Bolsheviks caught the car. Now they had to figure out what to do with it.

* 10.76- Liberty or Victory: Can anyone guess which one Lenin and the Bolsheviks will choose? 

* 10.77- Brest Litovsk: Dance dance revolution

* 10.78- Neither War Nor Peace: What's better than war and peace? Neither war nor peace!

* 10.79- Reds and Whites: Time to head into the final lap...

* 10.80- The Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion: Time to play the wild card

* 10.81- The Revolt of the Left SRs: Hey it was worth a shot. Well, actually, probably not.

* 10.82- The House of Special Purpose: Time to tie up some loose ends. 

* 10.83- Terror is Necessary: But is it though?

* 10.84- The End of The Old World: The end of WWI was a pretty big deal all things considered.

* 10.85- The German Revolution: There was a revolution in Germany. But it wasn't like the revolution in Russia

* 10.86- The Communist Soviets: All power to the Soviets!* *The Communist Party

* 10.87- Anarchy in Ukraine: Nestor Makhno thy time has come

* 10.88- The Moscow Directive: To Moscow!

* 10.89- The Collapse of the Whites: Spoiler Alert in the title.

* 10.90- The Polish-Soviet War: Why stop fighting when you can keep fighting?

* 10.91- The Battle of Warsaw: So close yet so far away.

* 10.92- Long Live the Bolsheviks Death to the Communists  [Insert Spider-Man meme here]

* 10.93- The Kronstadt Rebellion: Poetically, or ominously, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Commune...

* 10.94- The New Policies. When the old policies aren't working...try new policies!

* 10.95- Russian Empire Soviet Empire: Tbh, it's bit like one of those "circle five differences in these two pictures that otherwise seem identical" games.

* 10.96- Starving To Death: You know we're covering an upbeat period of history when the title of the episode is "Starving To Death"

* 10.97- The Trial of the SRs: There's no business like show business.

* 10.98- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Forward in the USSR

* 10.99- The Testament: It's a faaaaaaaaaaake.

* 10.100- History Never Ends: After one hundred episodes, you might agree!

* 10.101- The United Opposition: To be in power, or not to be in power, that is the question...

* 10.102- Dizzy With Success. So dizzy. So much success.

* 10.103- The Final Chapter: See you on the other side.

and see also my mini-review of the first eight episodes here.

Listening Progress

April 8, 2024--10.3- The Three Pillars of Marxism.

April 9, 2024--10.4- Historical Materialism

April 10--10.7- Paris Commune Revisited

April 11--10.10- The Russian Empire

April 12--10.13- Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality

April 13--10.17- The Emancipation of Labor Group

April 14--10.20- The Liberal Tradition (Such As It Is)

April 15--10.24- The Union of Struggle for The Emancipation of the Working Class

April 16--10.30- The SRs

April 17--10.32- The Union of Liberation

April 18--10.34- The Wave of Protest

April 19--10.36- The Bulygin Constitution

April 20--10.42- The Stolypin Reforms

April 21--10.45- The Disunity Congresses

April 22--10.48- The Death of Reform

April 23--Supplemental: The Streets of Paris

April 24--10.55- Whatever Happened To The International?

April 25--SNEAK PREVIEW: Hero of Two Worlds Chapter Four

April 26--10.57 Great War Great Offensive

April 27--10.61- The Precipice

April 28--10.66- Finland Station (Wherein the Bolsheviks call for an Uber.)

April 29--10.68 The June Offensive

Started: Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan