The Russian Revolution: How the Tsars Lost Everything
Fexingo History · Eastern Europe
The Russian Revolution: How the Tsars Lost Everything
From the glittering palaces of St. Petersburg to the frozen front lines of World War I, the Russian Revolution was a seismic upheaval that shattered three centuries of Romanov rule and redrew the map of the modern world. Lucas and Luna guide you through the crackling tension of late imperial Russia: the serfdom that choked the countryside, the industrial slums of Moscow and Petrograd, and the tsars who clung to autocracy while the ground burned beneath them. We trace the blood-soaked arc from the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 to the 1905 Revolution and Bloody Sunday, then into the cataclysm of 1917 where Nicholas II lost his throne and his life. This show dissects the savage civil war that followed—Reds versus Whites, foreign intervention, the execution of the Romanovs in Ekaterinburg, and the rise of Lenin and Trotsky. We also explore the ideas: Marxism as it was twisted by Russian conditions, the role of the peasantry, and the brutal logic of war communism. What does it mean when an empire collapses from within? And how did the Soviet experiment’s violent birth shape the Cold War and today’s authoritarian playbooks? Every episode is a deep dive into the people, battles, and ideologies that turned an empire into a graveyard and a superpower.
