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

(Podcasts--History) 

Started: April 07, 2024

(This is my first time reviewing this podcast on this blog--or at least, reviewing it as a whole. So, according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.)

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

Sorry, I know this video wasn't very good.  File this under:
1) The dangers of doing unscripted videos, and

2) I'm always sleepy when I film videos, because I have to wait for the kids to go to bed before I can film.

There were several things I had planned to talk about that I just forgot to mention.  And there were a few thins I mentioned that I wish I hadn't.  (e.g. My mentioning of Mike Duncan's mixing up of some of the names in the last few episodes--mentioning that was a pedantic nit-pick.)

Links to stuff mentioned:

* My review of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2013/12/young-stalin-by-simon-sebag-montefiore.html

* Well, it looks like Google Podcast is finally gone.

As I mentioned in my started post, half of this series I had already reviewed on my blog.

For my thoughts on the first 8 episodes (the prologue about Marx and Bakunin), see HERE.

I also started reviewing this podcast episode by episode from episode 63 (partly as a way to alleviate boredom during the Covid lockdown).  The links to those min-reviews 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.