A-Level: Russia, 1917-1953

'This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-political drama – and attempts to rehabilitate the ‘bourgeois’ provisional government that preceded the Bolsheviks.'

"Formed in 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a one-party state, governed and ruled by the Communist Party. A new TV documentary series, The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 2022, explores the country that Winston Churchill famously referred to as: ‘A riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’."

'The Soviet Union's Economy was once the envy of the world, But as rapidly as it arose the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of its crumbling Economy. but why?

While the rest of the world struggled during the great depression, The Soviet Union was quickly and rapidly industrializing under Stalin's command, but locked within the foundations of the country lie an unavoidable time bomb. In this video we travel all the way back to the 14th century to understand the fundamental forces and conditions that caused Communism to arise in Russia in the first place. Then we follow the economic story and evolution from the Russian empire to the fall of the Soviet Union.

--Contents of this video--------------------------------
00:00 - 1920's Global Economic Boom
00:50 - Great Depression
01:19 - The Soviet Economy Stands Alone
02:45 - The Roots of Economic Divergence
04:09 - The Black Death
06:40 - East Vs West European Economic History
07:55 - Industrial Revolution in the West
08:47 - The Russian Empire's Economy
11:55 - The Soviet Economy's Beginnings
13:42 - Soviet Industrialization - Stalin's 5 year plans
16:22 - Problems with Soviet Economy
21:00 - Cause of Soviet Union's Collapse
25:11 - Thanks for Watching!'

Antony Beevor Breaks Down the Russian Revolution of 1917.

"Host of History Hit podcast 'Warfare' Dr James Rogers sits down with military historian and author of 'Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921', Antony Beevor to discuss the causes and major events of the Russian Revolution.

Speaking in the Three John's pub in Islington, allegedly where Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky met in 1903 and sowed the seeds of one of the most significant revolutions in history, the pair cover the February and October Revolution of 1917, the fall of a weak Tsar Nicholas II, the failure of Kerensky's provisional government and the role of the First World War in creating discontent, providing Vladimir Lenin the opportunity to capitalise on chaos."

Answer on Leninism starts at 4:20

'An excerpt from the question and answer session from Noam Chomsky lecture MANUFACTURING CONSENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MASS MEDIA, delivered on March 15, 1989, at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin.'