Episode 78 - The Eastern Bear

<p>Fresh new miniseries this week as I get started on unpacking the Soviet Union's early years. But as you're probably familiar with by now, a topic that big deserves some setup, and today I begin a way-too-fast overview of the conditions in the Russian Empire leading up to the early 1900s. In short, the place was a mess and it turns out that an out-of-touch autocracy wasn't the best institution to fix it. </p> <p> </p> <p>Bibliography for this episode: </p> <p> </p> <ol><li>Hosking, Geoffrey Russia and the Russians: A History The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2001</li> <li>Figes, Orlando A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1917 Penguin Books 1998</li> <li>Smith, SA Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis 1890-1928 Oxford University Press 2018</li> <li>Fitzpatrick, Sheila The Russian Revolution, 4th Edition Oxford University Press 2017</li> <li>Kotkin, Stephen Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 Penguin Books 2015</li> </ol><p> </p> <p>Questions? Comments? Email me at <a href='mailto:peaceintheirtime@gmail.com'>peaceintheirtime@gmail.com</a></p>