Sir Antony Beevor on Russia, writing history and why he hates (most) war movies | The InnerView
Sir Antony Beevor, author of bestsellers such as Stalingrad and The Second World War joins Imran Garda to talk about his latest book, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 to explain why those events more than one hundred years ago echo with relevance in today’s turbulent times.
The two sat down at Minoa Pera bookstore in Istanbul to discuss the personalities of Tsar Nicholas II and Lenin and weigh up whether history is created by great men or great circumstances. The great historian also explains why no amount of soul-stirring storytelling can alter his disdain for Hollywood-produced historical movies that play fast and loose with the facts.
00:00 Knight who writes about tsars, revolutionaries, and dictators
01:10 What is the great challenge for historians today?
02:42 “No nation has a DNA”
03:41 Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson - Russia vs. the West
07:12 “Pregnant widow”
09:44 Historic leaders and their role in shaping the future
11:01 Lenin and Tsar Nicholas II
12:15 Is democracy a strength or a weakness in 2024?
13:28 Beevor’s work digging into the archives
15:00 20th century
16:05 What are the fundamental drivers of history?
18:02 Beevor criticizes war movies
21:55 What is Beevor’s biggest fear about the future?
23:22 Can democracies be trusted?
24:02 History books and their relevance
25:26 Beevor’s new projects
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Sir Beevor's Stalingrad is a masterpiece
I bought that book and was going to read it, but in this interview, Beevor reveals himself to be an ordinary NATO propagandist, so I've thrown his book in the bin.
The very fact that he has that knowledge makes his disgraceful bigoted contempt toward Russia and conformity to UK and US lies even more obscene.
Limited by his western education however.
It's cheap,emotional garbage.
@@kom17 that's a very mild assesment if you ask me.
Great Sir author, greetings from Poland with respect
Great interview and great interviewer 🙏
I utter&complete-ly disagree! :_[ hYlkeW
What an enjoyable and thought provoking interview between the interviewee Sir Anthony Beevor and the gentleman performing the interview. I felt the questions were well thought out and that he had done his homework.
GREAT INTERVIEWEE AND GREAT INTERVIEWER. ONE OF THE BEST INTERVIEWS I HAVE EVER SEEN. ONE OF THE VERY FEW ON TRP.
I utter&complete-ly disagree! :_[ hYlkeW
This is a very good interview with very good questions.
I utter&complete-ly disagree! :_[ hYlkeW
Absolutely fascinating. Must read some of his books now!
Wonderful interview. My take on movies about historical events is, yes, you should not use a movie as a history lesson, but it can be a gateway drug into reading about what really happened. As a teen, late at night, i saw the movie Mister Roberts, still one if my favorites. That inspired me to go down into the basement and start to read my father's books about the Pacific war. Now I have a tendency to bore people when I talk about these subjects. Or maybe I'm just boring, oh well.
When you are not swimming in kool aid you are automatically boring. Wear it as a medal.
It is the people who are clueless about the world we live in who are boring. And you know what?Most of them WANT to be clueless. The want to know NOTHING other than what they are being told.
" Peoples history of US " by Howard Zinn Did you ever read this book? Just curiosity pressed me to ask this Question ❓
Lincoln was also a racist, but he freed the slaves. So, as we study history, these are the contradictions that we encounter.
Please recheck it. Did Howard Zinn slightly oppose your view? Lincoln was under tremendous pressure no to
Goodness! Nice to see how Beevor thinks about east and west. A bit disheartening, but it is what it is.
Speaking of maudlin movies,I wonder what he thinks of Vilsmaier's "Stalingrad" ?
A fascinating interview with some unexpected curveball questions.
"Why cant Russia become a proper democracy?" The question seems to suppose the West somehow functions as an authentic democracy-
Of course it is not perfect - but alternatives seem much worse.
@@colincampbell4261 The west´s "democracy" looks functional because the dice are loaded in our favour: USA hegemony; NATO belligerence; a strangle hold on oil and banking. It all looks a bit fragile these days. USA democracy is dysfunctional- there is no social mobility- if you´re poor, you´ll die poor.
No, it does not. There is no such thing as a authentic democracy. Democracies are self perfecting entities but flawed nonetheless. However, any ultra woke democracy with 123 genders and 7000 races is still miles and miles and miles better than Dictatorships such as Putinistan or Xinesia. Name one dictatorship that works better than our flawed western nations. I am eager to learn.
Democracy isn’t perfect, but Ruzzian kleptocracy is hell.
It doesn't seems. It does.
What country is a perfect democracy?
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’ Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
@@artmcteagle I know that. There are many supposedly democratic countries. Which one of them can be used as a model?
Beevor needs to have a much tougher interview than this. The interviewer was poor.
23:41 The inability to self reflect is quite astonishing.
brits be brits...
Sir Antony Beevor is one of my favourite historians, together with Stephen Kotkin.
Beevor knows his demographic very well. If you want to make money in the bookselling field, it's America America America and it's a very fickle market so you never criticise your market in any meaningful way. You pander the Americans and become rich. The other fellow you like. well like all Eastern Europeans he carries baggage a lot of baggage as to percieved crimes agaist his grand parents. Both these authors are biased but for different reasons. Beevor for money...Kotkin for hate and revenge...i think !
I utter&complete-ly disagree! :_[ hYlkeW
I would like to read a book about the real experiences of the Russian people after the collapse of the Soviet Union. On a different note, I strongly disagree with the author that it's unlikely there will be another "great man" in the West. The danger is visible for those who can see it. This issue is discussed around 11:00
Try "The invention of Russia" by Arkady Ostrovsky. Not so much about experiences, but a well done popular history of Russia after 1989
Putin's three year old brother died of hunger in Stalingrad. Why is this fact not mentioned more? Would give good insight into his loathing of Western invaders. I also think all this emphasis on styles of Governments is somewhat abstract. The streets of Moscow and Beijing are safer than London and New York. Is that not a bottom line for people. Look at the choice facing the US now? I would rather have a good leader than a choice between Trump and Biden.
‘Globalisation’ is not an event - it is a cynical programme. 6:44
David irving?where is he?
Persecuted for telling the truth
@@cyberhermit1222 Bollocks. He's been thoroughly discredited for telling lies. A judge branded him an anti-semite, a racist and a bigot, which he is. Remember that he lost his own court case against Deborah Lipstadt - idiot.
@@cyberhermit1222in a very special chamber.
Doing fine untill you mentioned BowTieMan. He doesn't rate near someone like this .......... ( Fell off cliff )
I've noticed that people who declined a knighthood constitute a *far* more interesting group than the narcissists who relish honors.
Nah. It would be healthy if we brought back all the customs from 100 or more years ago.
You’ve noticed? OK list your top 100 people who have declined a knighthood.
A bizarre take Putin taking about one Russia - is that strange as a president of one country? Doesn't all presidents talk to the citizens as being one people? Is the US any different?
Yes. USA hasn't tried to invade Canada since the War of 1812.
Not bizzare at all if you consider the calls about dismemberment of RF.
correct...otherwise they will get trown out of office for not properly following the protocols of their constitution
Speaking as both a historian and as a Marxist, I can say that Beevor's books still hold up pretty well. Kudos to him on his whole body of work!
You can’t be a Marxist and a historian. The two are not compatible.
Beevor's work is pulp "history" with HEAVY antirussian and ,since you say you are a marxist,anticommunist bias. Stalingrad was below subpar,Berlin was complete trash. The guy is a joke,he was writing spy novels before relabeling himself as a WW2 guru...
if you say so 🤡
@@anthonyhulse1248 pathetic argumentation funny man
Is that noise in the background a smoke detector? So annoying
It's an interesting but quite disingenuous interview with Sir Anthony Beever, I think. I see that Western self-consciousness is very flattered by the idea of its own superiority and, accordingly, the idea of the confrontation between Western democracies and all kinds of autocracies. But, in fact, this is a very superficial view of things. Using this dichotomy, it is easy to manipulate Western society, including on the issue of war and peace. This is what we are seeing now in connection with the confrontation with Russia.
the soothing sounds of aggrandising self flatulation..no one better then british intellectuals
“The west hopes all people’s will see the merits of parliamentary democracy “ … 😂😂😂
Because it’s 110% better than the alternative. On the other hand: may you have the joy of living in a putinesque kleptocracy in your own country. 🙏
Why Russia should become a demo For? Did democracy is ultimate ideas for the world?
In a nutshell, yes. Democracy is the best choice under a number of bad chances. It is a small jackpot but still the jackpot. Not a palace but a modest home.
@@rg-cc5kg When I hear a gentleman declare that Great Britain is a democracy, I always want to ask him how many times have the British people elected their head of state? The latest leapfrog with British prime ministers clearly showed how little part British voters had in this. It's strange that British politicians continue to teach democracy to the rest of the world.
Beevor,Applebaum etc were on a mission when they were publishing tneir works. I suspected this back then,it has been confirmed after 2014. There is nothing else to be told.
Overrated author, average interview
Fake account.
Sorry, too much fawning, too much name-dropping.
It's British. 😂
@@redtobertshateshandles This is a Turkish channel. Go figure.
Braveheart, very entertaining but not based on fact.
Could you recommend a biography of Putin?
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It is painful to listen somebody who is so knowledgeable but willfully ignorant. Mt Beevor doesn't understand and is disconnected from the present reality
You confuse putin’s ambitions with reality.
Wow, Russian bots out in force in the comments.
Define ' bots'?
@@felipe-viborshills for putin, apologists for ruzzian war crimes.
@@felipe-vibor Google it.
Beevor was the ultimate WasteBot,before it was cool.
thanks for the compliment,i feel warm and fuzzy
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It always strikes me how much ideological agenda permeates actually British political and historical talk! All those ceaseless references to "democracy vs totalitarism" have as much in common with reality as communist "conflict of classes"! This is particularly ironic, having in mind how the British dealt not only with other nations like the "pesky" Irish but also their own indigenous population throughout history -- were they really any "milder and gentler" than Russians? Antony Beevor is considered by serious Russian historians to be a populist writer not because he has something against Russia but precisely because his ideological standpoint consistently prevails over history in his works. Just watching this interview, one can see how tendentious and unhistorical are the views of this guy which can produce only awful results in the study of history. After all, it is supremely ironic that a person from the Kingdom talks with a person from the country with as a sketchy history of "democracy" as Russia ruled by another "dictator," Erdogan, about how bad Putin is and how undemocratic Russia is. Mind you, to an interviewer from another country, Anthony would mention how bad Turkey is with the same typical English swagger and nonchalance.
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In what way are Beevor's views "unhistorical". How do you know what his views are?
Clearly he's annoying all the right people. 😆
Clearly you engage in whataboutery to avoid discussion of RuZZia’s current genocidal war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 and its hegemonic ambitions from Pacific, to Atlantic to the Arctic. Shame
@@BrianOh-uc3gm I can answer that- as a history scholar, I read all of his books, and find them firmly embedded in fiction and propaganda, rather than fact. Whatever little factual presence there is in his books gets twisted to fit the narrative that Beavor trying to peddle in his populist writing.
NATO get out of Ukraine
If ever NATO goes to Ukraine, you'll know.
when "one" can only use the word "one's" rather than my.... and thinks all historians are males... he looks like a dinosaur to me. Sort of appropriate for a historian, really.
Free Palestine😢
Is in progress, patience
Stupidity does not hurt
Beevor is to history what Kentucky Fried Chicken is to Chicken…. entry level history… or British Propaganda..
british literature is a form of softpower to suport the narative of the empire