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