One of the seminal events of the twentieth century was the collpase of the Romanov monarchy and its eventual replacement with Lenin’s Communist experiment. This episode not only unpacks the causes of the Russian Revolution, but gives a detailed look into what Soviet society looked like between 1917 and 1940. Among other topics, we’ll discuss the terror that followed the Bolshevik’s victory, the intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians (known as the Holodomor), the Great Purges of the 1930s, the opening of the GULAG prison camps and so much more.

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