• Episode 125: Mark Galeotti - Russian History in 60 Minutes

  • Oct 18 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Episode 125: Mark Galeotti - Russian History in 60 Minutes

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  • 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
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