Lenin & The Russian Revolution Documentary
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Could you do the butcher of Lyon K.Barbie
I will when I can. I'm learning so much. You're doing something important
Britain did not join to aupport russian ally. They joined because Germany violated Belgian neutrality
Ты лжец.
A sanitised version of the life, omitting a great deal that should have been included, for instance atrocities like mass killings, torture and famine.
FUN FACT: "One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd's luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 600.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing
Sabbateans are a close knit group
Interesting. I did not know that.
Very interesting. I am wondering Putin's true opinion on the communism in the US/Britain and the WEF plans for world government. It seems strange we are fighting Russia unless we are just in the process of redistributing wealth. I don't know much about him.
@@timeforchange3786 his views on the subjects tou mention are well documented? Are you being sarcastic or have you genuinely just not looked into his opinion on the matter?
Marx described how a proletarian state would arise, not what it would look like. Lenin didn't abandon Marxism, but he was forced to "wing it" as the Soviet State was breaking new ground by simply existing
Well said
He was greedy and power-hungry
Eh not really. Plenty of despotic totalitarian governments existed before the cccp
i think most people perceive marxism as a fully fleshed out ideology with political and governmental prescriptions due to the fact that stalin called his "marxism-leninism" when in fact marxism is nothing of the sort. it would be more accurately described as marxist thought or analysis.
@@ISO8LegionaireYeah, Stalin was a piece of work.
Hugely impressed by this clear, concise and well balanced program. Congratulations.
British documentaries tend to be of a high standard.
@@housinauthority5258 no they aren't
@@housinauthority5258If they're independent, then yes. BBC and other mainstream media now, not so much
@5:20 the video mentions the writer Mikhail Bulgokov (sic) ... the reference likely is to the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), rather than to Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), who was obviously not a contemporary of Dostoyevsky or Kropotkin.
"The Master and Marguerite "
It couldn’t be bulgakov. He was born in 1891.
I learned about Lenin in high school as my country was then ruled by a socialist and learning the Marxist-Leninist political theory in school was a requirement. I was always fascinated by his ideology. However, I didn’t know about his childhood and overall upbringing until today. This is a well organized & informative documentary! Thank you.
The two things that really helped me put this all into perspective were 1) 50% of the Russian population in 1905 was illiterate and worked in agriculture, 2) This whole revolution happened while the Soviets were being invaded on 14 fronts at the same time and won
There's countless books on his childhood, I'm surprised people seem not to know about this in 2023.
@@raddkahnengels Incorrect on both accounts.
@@raddkahnengels 1) Much more then 50%. 2) Revolution happend during WW I, during civil war the country was invaded but there were not do many fronts of course.
@@andreyevsv I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the 14 nation coalition that came in the help the whites during the civil war. That’s why he’s saying 14 fronts.
Usually when there is a documentary about Lenin it fails to be objective and it is strongly biased against Lenin. This doc is an exception. It does present a balanced and accurate veiw.
Ленин знал отлично 24 языка
Why would you want a mass murdering nut job in good light?
Well..... its kind of difficult to look at the good side of someone who was directly responsible for the extermination of millions of human beings.
@johnstudd4245 Aren't you confusing Lenin and Stalin? Also ,the White Russians killed a lot of people too! And don't forget Czar Nicholas.
@@johnstudd4245Global capitalist imperialism kills hundreds of thousands every day through starvation or American bombs but libs never want to talk about that.
A great narration, unadulterated history, no political bias, only facts.
Lol....ya right
commienish bstardos
@@lindyswing4368which parts are inaccurate? I’m no major historian but it seemed pretty even handed to me. Very enjoyable documentary.
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@@lindyswing4368what? Do you prefer the right wing version which teaches that Lenin was actually a Jewish lizard man who wanted to make everyone gay and is the incarnation of Satan himself? Is that what you wanted to hear?
This video should indicate that a great deal of the footage of Lenin doesn’t actually depict Lenin, but instead actors portraying him.
"Достучаться до справедливости в ворота дворцов можно только прикладами винтовок" В.И Ленин
枪杆子里出政权！
@@user_tom The gun is instant, the pen kills in time. -some guy
@@user_tomall laws are backed by the barrel of a gun at best. Said maybe by someone other than me
"communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ~mAo
"МНОГОКРАТНО ПОВТОРЕННАЯ ЛОЖЬ СТАНОВИТСЯ ПОХОЖЕЙ НА ПРАВДУ" В.И Ленин, а позже эту ленинскую фразу любил цитировать Геббельс
Extraordinary presentation. Many decades ago I pursued a graduate degree in Russian and Soviet history so I know a little something about Lenin. But your bio here expanded my knowledge. I would only add that there's a school of thought that Krupskaya had a significant hand in Lenin's final testament and I expected something on that issue. But overall I am deeply impressed with this superb presentation.
what's that meaning?
@@AtticusHatzis23483 It is proved that "the last letter" was not 100 % originally dictated by Lenin, but was slightly edited by (probably Krupskaya) in favor of Trotskiy.
@@TM-xq9ju Its more accurate to name it The Testament of Lenin. I got Synder's point, but I just want to know whether it is propaganda or fact.
Also Lenin & the Bolsheviks were to the right of internal socialist politics, once they seized power in 1917 they presented themselves as centrists within the Soviet Union but really they were on the right.
@@davebrayfb Politics is inherently right.
Fab doc. One issue: Bulgakov is mentioned early on but he did not start publishing until after WWI with his debut novel “The White Guard”
thank you, the summing up at the end was impressive
This was an excellent documentary; step by step historical insight in to Lenin and what led to communism. Thank you!!👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
The documentary was good but you should do MORE RESEARCH. The Russian experience under communism is a helluve lot more than an hour long documentary. But I appreciate the videos author for bring this to light. It was WORSE than any of us in the west can imagine. Go read The gulag archipelago, by Alexander solzhenitsyn to get a true scope of the horror that was the USSR.
@@justinrichardson4456 If you are going to recommend a resource for studying a historical event, at least make sure that it's somewhat reliable. The gulag archipelago is at best a personal anecdote jumbled up with a collection of rumors such that it's impossible to distinguish what parts are personal experience and what parts come from rumors written by a fascist, at worst -and more likely-, fiction.
There was no “communism” in Russia. That’s what they hoped to achieve sometime. What they have built was a socialism. It was not a Russian but Jewish movement and eventually revolution supported by western bankers.
@@nemo2203 somebody who knows...
Love these profiles! The narrator is superb and the content is very interesting! Cheers!
the first Soviet Constitution of 1918 was adopted; instead of a unitary state, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) appeared; the capital was moved from Petrograd to Moscow; the abolition of estates, the Soviet man became a citizen of the republic; introduction of the Western European calendar (Gregorian); established 8-hour working day; a regulation on the social security of the elderly and disabled was adopted; laws have been passed to protect women's and child labor; free education and free medicine were proclaimed; the church is separated from the state and the school; nationalization of banks, industry, railway transport, sea and river ports; land socialization.
I wish it was just that unfortunately capitalism is nazism...😮😊
Women's suffrage has been introduced
It's important to know what happened in history, thank you very much for presenting!
Thank you for sharing and posting this informative video that explains clearly a complicated subject.
I read the history of Russia since I can remember- this video filled many gaps. Thanking you for a very informative and brilliantly compiled part of history!
The very title is misleading - it wasn't Russian Revolution, it was *Jawish" Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky were only 2 of many "*Jaws* and the Bolsheviks were funded by J-ish bankers. Marxism itself is J-ish and hardly anyone talks about it because you can't ever talk about J-s. Me comments get removed for spelling the word in such context.. But guess what, this platform is also theirs, same as Meta platforms like FB.
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful documentary with us. I've watched the documentaries before about this revolution, but this one was exceptional. Thanks again ❤.
Calling Lenin a reactionary makes me doubt the whole documentary immediately
It’s a *very* lib coded documentary from the outset.
he quite literally was.. cope
@@spiraljumper74 cry
@@user-lq7nq1dg8u please illustrate how Lenin was a reactionary in any way.
So Hitler wasn’t reactionary to the social and economic death of Germany after WW1?? If it wasn’t a reaction then you try and find a thesaurus and pick one that doesn’t make people around you react with concern for you idiocy
Theory without experience is always dangerous. The concentration of power is the enemy, no matter the supposed end.
Without the concentration of power Both Leon and Lenin would have failed to keep the revolution alive, they would also have failed against all the western invaders. Any socialist or left leaning Government will not be able to manifest due to outside interference to this day unless they concentrate power.
Like USA constantly bully other countries by bombing them for oil
Huh? Theory without experience is dangerous? I can vibe w it being intellectual play...but dangerous? Isn't it how shiz iz discovered?
No one should be trusted with unbridled power. Whenever some humans have it over other humans, the picture is seldom pretty.
The 0.1% is richer and more powerful than ever sure the practice of capitalism is not dangerous for them at all so what practice will defy them?
This will, undoubtedly, be excellent
And so it was!
Resist the temptation to comment until you KNOW how excellent the video is 😅
This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased.
It's almost as good as Europa the last battle.
I'm thankful for this historical history,I hope you guys never stop posting all of this historical facts
I'd love to see a video on Viriato or Henry the Navigator. Def have a few Portuguese individuals that would be great to watch!
Yes, I would watch a video about Henry the Navigator.
This is as productive as it can get. Thanks a lot!
Excellent documentary - I learned so much. Thank you.
These documentary presentations are indispensable. Thank you so much.
These videos give a good escape from the politics and economics of today
You mean the ones that look exactly like the ones in the video?! Because it's not just coming, it's here.
Let me say only one thing here. The video says that it was likely that Lenin did not know of his mother's Jewish heritage. But in a recent Dutch podcast I heard a professor of history say that Lenin was proud of his part-Jewish heritage, because he admired some intellectual Jews and had a high esteem of them. So my point is: so many things are said on the internet without any reliable source and many of those 'facts' or strong assumptions are not true at all.
he wasn't, this is (((nazi))) propaganda
at school we were told that Lenin's mother was half German, half Russian, Orthodox.
Brilliant: clear, focused, and deep at the same time. Thank you!
Great documentary. It’s impressive Russia didn’t completely lose its sovereignty after what it went though in 1917 and 1918.
Exactly, and such danger is why Lenin launched the Bolshevik governmental takeover earlier than the time he expected for a successful capitalist stage, per Marx. Therefore, he skipped that stage and went straight to socialism. Lenin had feared that if the ill-equipped Russian Army would not be a defensive match against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary) and all Russian lands would belong to the Central Powers.
Thank you very much for such well put together documentary
I agree
This is a Very helpful summary of Ulanov's development in the sociopolitical context of his times--and, very well presented. Thanks
Тhat's right - Ulyanov, not Ulanov.
Sooo much to learn from all this, thank you
excellent and very informative documentary. thanks for your effort..!
The narrator is top shelf 🍸
@@ThePeopleProfiles-Text I’m trying but I can’t get through. Says not able to deliver
Finally!!!! I was waiting for you guys to release a video on Lenin. Thank you so much!
Our pleasure!
More than a million people were killed for political or religious reasons during what is known as the Red Terror, between 1918 and 1922, the harshest time of Lenin's dictatorship. Many more were butchered & slaughtered on the orders of the satanic communist scumbag right up until his death is 1924.
It is
They did Stalin, makes sense that this was coming, bless.
very good and interesting presentation . Thanks
This has to be one of the best and most importantly comprehensive documentations I have seen in quite awhile. Thank You.
I love your biography videos. Especially on the throughness of representing the people and the history explained. I wish you could make a video on Che Guvera.
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Lenin and Stalin had been so dirty that the soil hasn’t accepted them yet!
Amazing doc , i loved it thank you so much for sharing
Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson
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Hello from Moscow and thanks!
Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson. This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased..
предвзятая, и ещё как.
Well, here goes my weekend. Will be watching your videos
a detailed and comprehensive documentary, having all the necessary factors one needs to study Lenin as a revolutionary and theorist.
Best book on this period is "Red Victory " by W Bruce Lincoln , about the civil war of 1918 - 21 , my favourite book of modern history along with Shirers "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , Lincolns book is best for its character descriptions eg] Zinoviev and kamenev as "political Siamese twins" , the description of Dzerzhinsky is brilliant , the anecdote of the Llubyanka food enough to give one nightmares , " horse hair and hide with sticky floating globules all culminating in a foul evil smelling liquid " is what I can remember from reading it way back in 92 , also the discriptions of some of the horrible cossack attamans like Kalmykov and Ungern Sternburg not to mention the anarchist leader Makhno ,if anyone likes modern history books you will love this !
Your name is Churchill lol you couldn't make it up
Are you related to Alexandra Churchill, the historian?
Are you related to Churchill the dog in the Churchill insurance ads ?
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Another great book on this period is The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine. It's 1,200 pages long, but worth the read if this period interests you.
"[As Tsar Alexander] approached, the police arrested three young People's Will terrorists carrying bombs to perpetrate a second 1 March outrage. Five terrorists were hanged, including their bomb-maker, Alexander Ulyanov, aged nineteen, whose execution had a decisive influence on his younger brother, Vladimir, the future Lenin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 470.
Excellent and comprehensive. Thanks. Regards.
Thanks so much for this wonderful and exceptionally well done documentary on Lenin.
Yay!!! Russian history starting! Always been fascinated with soviet Russia
Hey same! Especially Soviet military history. Now I’m not a supporter of communism or socialism but it is fascinating to hear in documentaries
@@jonfranks6902 'Now I'm not a supporter of'.... But you used to be? Lol
USSR first demokratik peopl Repablik !
@@user-gg3bq5hm3n Nonsense. There were plenty of other slave societies prior to yours
@@joeschmoe435 I’d say the US is much more of a slave colony, especially after the Declaration of Independence.
This was a very interesting documentary. I knew nothing about Lenin. Thank you for posting.
Great video! Just wondering if you'd consider making videos of Kim Il-sung and/or Kim Jong-il at some point.
This video was excellent...especially in his and Russian relationship to Germany in the early years. The one thing it did not go into enough i feel was to mention the role of Germany facilitating his return to Russia and rise to power during the war
No. I yhink it was clearly stated enough that Germany did provided Lenin and some of his comrades a "seaaled train caridge" to go to Russia and the reasons Germans had in renedring this sort of assistance. This is enough on this issue in this film.
Good point by a Jewish financier
Well they generally keep these videos to an hour. Considering the length it was pretty good
@@seanohare5488 Exactly. And lets not forget the Jewish financiers that operated right out of good old America to facilitate much of this movement
About turn! March! Away with a talk-show. Silence, you speakers! Comrade Mauser, you have the floor. Down with the law which for us Adam and Eve have left. We'll ruin the jade of the past. Left! Left! Left!
00:04 Vladimir Lenin's early life and family background 01:25 Vladimir's childhood and early education 02:14 The impact of his father's death and his brother's involvement in a conspiracy 03:56 The political landscape of Russia in the 19th century 06:27 Vladimir's radicalization and involvement in protests 09:28 Vladimir's move to Saint Petersburg and involvement in revolutionary groups 10:12 His arrest and imprisonment 11:52 Exile to Siberia and marriage to Nadya 12:57 Continued activism and relocation to Switzerland and Germany 14:47 Lenin's involvement in the early history of the Russian communist movement 15:08 Split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at RSDLP's 2nd Party Congress 16:31 Bolsheviks acquire control over the central committee of the RSDLP 17:39 Revolution of 1905 and Lenin's return to Russia 18:53 October Manifesto and the end of the Revolution of 1905 20:07 Lenin and the Bolsheviks consider their options during the political crackdown 21:31 Lenin's return to London and resuming control over the RSDLP 23:19 Formalization of split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks into separate political parties 23:45 Opportunity for Lenin to re-establish himself during the outbreak of the European war 24:49 Lenin's time in Switzerland and the publication of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 26:34 Lenin's theory of transitioning straight from autocracy to socialist revolution 27:30 Disaffection, food shortages, and social unrest in Russia during the war 29:38 Bolstering the Bolshevik cause and the 'April Theses' 30:36 Tensions and violent demonstrations during the July Days 31:04 Suppression of the Bolsheviks and Lenin's plotting in Finland 31:40 Tense political situation and Kornilov's military takeover attempt 32:03 Lenin's return to Petrograd and the rise of the Bolsheviks 32:50 The October Revolution and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks 33:39 Establishment of a new socialist government and the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia 34:38 Introduction of economic reforms and major legislative changes 39:00 Formation of a one-party state and consolidation of power by the Communist Party 39:19 Assassination attempts on Lenin and his declining health 41:05 Transformation of the social and legal landscape of Russia 44:25 Lenin's government seeks peace with Germany 45:38 The rise of the White Army 47:16 State terror and the Cheka 49:04 The use of blocking units 50:28 The Red Army goes on the offensive 51:19 The end of the Russian Civil War 52:36 The establishment of the Comintern 53:23 The New Economic Policy 54:51 Lenin's political thought and legacy 59:28 In March 1923 Lenin suffered another stroke, as a result of which he lost the ability to speak.
thx for making this
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Great documentary. The US with 2 parties with one ideology is no different to 'one party' in old Soviet Union?
I wouldn't go quite that far, but yeah, it's somewhat similar.
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Russian history is very engrossing. Thank you for this narration.
Россия повлияла и продолжает влиять на развитие всего Мира.
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Thank you for such a wonderful video
Great editing and narration
It was impressive and unbiased and full of knowledge documentary …. The narrator himself has a balanced personality really impressive step by step provision of knowledge and events…. Thumbs up for the great job.
Bravo! This is an impressive documentary, a great historiographic approach to the life and times of V. I. Lenin. I will say it again, Lenin was not only a working class hero but a gigantic working class hero!
Hello socialist cult member.
And a baby and woman murderer!! Yay Lenin
Excelent video. It congregated many of my known facts about Lenin and added more on top to build a continuous image of him. By the way, what is the outro melody?
this is great narration...thankyou for this information
thanks People Profiles
LONG LIFE TO MOTHER RUSSIA AND THE GREAT PATRIOT THE GREAT VLADIMIR LENIN
As usual, Churchill said it best, '...the Russian people's greatest misfortune was his birth. Their second greatest was his death."
Churchill was such a piece of shit, honestly. He had some real banger lines but the man was a dangerously belligerent moron by most trusted accounts and he probably would’ve been totally fine with the Nazis less their expansionist ambitions. I mean they had all the same views about the “lesser races” and the degeneracy of liberalism.
“Freedom in capitalist society always remain the same as it was in Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners” Vladimir Lenin
Which suggests that Lenin was an untravelled moron.
Is that an actual quote?
@@josephrusso4828 Yes, it is from his work "The State and Revolution".
Lol.....I'd like to know about the freedmos of the people in the USSR, didnt seem so free to me.
@@Georgina-lv9bt May be you do not know enough.
Excellent. It has given me both an intellectual and biographical ground of Lenin. Thanks.
Very well presented
Very well done!
I agree
Very educational and informative
Superb documentary, very informative!
This was very informative, I would really like a similar video about Karl Marx
43:54 "a new Ukrainian state" requires the extreme clarification that it was only the Lwow/Gallicia/Volynhia region that was ruled by the self declared state in Lwow. When Germany collapsed it became a very venal anti-Jewish anti-Russian proto Nazi state that had only 13% or so literacy. There were competing and even more vicious racist bandit states in Kiev (Petlura) and Zaporozyhe (the so called anarchists who were basically rapists and marauders), plus Tsarists still in Rostov whose first move was to attack northwest to reconnect with Europe. The Lwow proto-Nazis were defeated by Poland. The others by the Tsarists. Then the Red Ukraine forces from Kharkov and the side-switching bandits - as at that time "Ukraine" did not include any Black Sea coast -took over from Tsarists whose last gasp was attacking Petrograd from Estonia in 1922.
The self-declared 'historians' of YT vids always provide for a good laugh,
As im not Russian I dont know what others think but my greatest liking of russia is the Great classical music from the Great classical composer's of Russia and the novalist as i admire all classical music be it Russian or any other country
What I would like to emphasize is that Lenin knew the history of the French Revolution very well and was a great admirer of it. Robespierre was his teacher and Lenin knew what mistake Robespierre made, so he avoided this mistake. Lenin understood that the Bolsheviks were the new Jacobins, and he was the most important Jacobin. The proletariat was a new class, the French Revolution was the bourgeoisie... if compared with modern times, today such a class is workers in the IT sector and digital technologies. Napoleon was the Tamer of the French Revolution, and Stalin became the Tamer of the Russian Revolution. If we continue my logic: In Russia in 1991 there was a bourgeois counter-revolution, then Putin is the Tamer of the bourgeois counter-revolution of 1991. Napoleon carried the ideas of the French Revolution (private property, Code civil), Stalin carried the ideas of building communism in a single country and spreading the influence of communism throughout the world, Putin carried the ideas of traditional culture against multiculturalism and building a multipolar world, against the hegemony of one country, the USA.
Its interesting to know that some of Lenin's last words was Don't let Stalin take over.. That says something there
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I don’t think this is as objective and unbiased as many have suggested in the comments, but it’s still useful/informative. Thank you.
Very clearly biased against Lenin, but still more "neutral" than most western bourgeois documentaries. Giving Lenin a fair opinion by putting his historical role and the context of tsarism
@@rimaq_Lenin is one of the most evil humans who ever walked on this earth. There is nothing to be un-biased about. The man was the devil.
I think one should also mention those three assassination attempts on Lenin in connection with his change of mind in regards to constituent assembly and hardening of his overall position early in 1918. Counter-revolution emerged immediately after 1917 and Lenin felt that communists had to harden their approach so that they were able to deal with it better and save revolutionary gains for Russian society. You have to tie assassination attempts to Lennin's change of position in regards to the form of governing. Of course, forming of Cheka was a mistake as this monster was impossible to delete after the end of civil war. But one cannot judge Lenin here too much as conditions in which he and communists found themselves after 1917 were extreme and clear and 100% right solution was impossible to see. Situation must resolve quickly during volatile post-revolution year if one wants to have success. Add to this lack of resources for new commmunist government in terms of dealing with emergence of counter-revolution reaction. I also think that well-functioning bourgeois capitalist democracy wasnt possible in Russia at that time. It would've meant opening yourself to developed western capitalism that would have turned Russia into appendage, another "Africa", source for the rich European capitalism. Nobody would've let Russia to develop calmly into developed industrial capitalism. Russia would've gotten into same situation it got in 1990s. But way worse. So Lenin's idea was correct and only way at that point. To develop Russia into industrial country via centralized state governing. Russia would've never developed so quickly into industrial nation via capitalist profit-making logic. And people shouldnt forget the hostility of all European and Western nations towards Russia in 1920s and 1930s. Capitalists didnt want to have socialist state so close to their borders. And in 1930s Stalin really thought that England would invade Soviet Union any minute hence his paranoia.
Lenin was not correct when he established a murderous regime. And Stalin didn't fear England in 1930s that had more problems on its own by then. But Stalin feared he could lose power internally and killed his opponents preemprively.
@@Achill101 Also who released 8- hour working day law first in history ( in USA only in 1938, in 1920-x striking miners were killed by US army) and made total electrification. Also women emancipation law
Not only assassination attempts but such notion as "white terror" and help of foreign countries to "whites" in form of war intervention ( 14 countries icludin USA , England Japan and so on) It was too hard time not to get hardened for communist headed by Lenin )
@@alexeyb6129 as 8 horas diárias foi primeiro no Uruguai. Mas todas a beneces sociais foram advindas do marxismo leninismo.
@@alexeyb6129 Communism "emancipated" millions of people...via a bullet in the back of the head.
Great video i learned so much!!!!!
Thank you. That was great! J.
Wonderful video!!!! 👍👍👍👍 I didn't know that Russia have royalty until I was in the fifth grade. They didn't teach much about the Russian Revolution either! I read the book, Nicolas and Alexandra and saw the movie version from that book when I was nine. Keep up the great work!❤️ Bravo!👏👏👏👏
yea there is way less information on the russian revolution in the west than on the german...there is a documentary every day on the nazi crimes..but not on the bolshewiks
Most Westerners don’t know much about Russia, that’s why you make a lot of ignorant statements.
@@vkrgfan even russians did the same😃
@@vkrgfan looking at the conditions of the Russian state, I wonder if the Russians know any better than us... but I must admit that Russia did an incredible job faking itself as a great power and a military behemoth. A steel and marble facade held together by duct tape: hopefully they will start focusing more on improving their federation, other than their appearance... otherwise, they will either fall behind or fall completely.
Well, there was Russian Empire, and it’s an accurate way to call this country of that time. It’s unprofessional for historians to call it Russia. Because that was another country and another thing.
Great stuff
I learn allot---- well done!
Felicitari !!!
Made my week
Thank you for producing a historically objective documentary. I’m so exhausted going through other channels with their blatant revisionism and neoliberal/fascist propaganda.
A few notable propaganda type errors here and there, however. One being the characterisation of the October Manifesto reforms as a stage managed charade by the emperor's court. Could not be further from the truth; Russian parliamentarianism, from 1905-1918, was actually further ahead in some aspects than in most Western European countries, during the same period. The economy also grew exponentially since the reforms were officially inaugurated. Most if not all of Lenin's grievances, were entirely ideologically based. Historical enemies of Russia simply used his many rantings as material for propaganda purposes, to discredit Russia.
Largest neo-fascist groups today are in Russia.
@markeedeep Nobody is discrediting his barbarism and his statistic passion to execute Nuns. In all the Soviets executed 250,000 Clergy and closed 50,000 Churches.
I hear ya. Often though 1 man's objectivity is another man's propaganda. Still, one can usually find the presentation minus the bias.
@@Paulius-lb4ng lol did you get that from the Black Book of Communism?
Mikhail Bulgakov wasn't even born until 1891. he wasn't discussing anything with anyone in the 1870s, 80s, or 90s. On the other hand, Mikhail Bakunin was relevant at that time as the father of anarchism makes more sense in the context you were refering to.
This documentary is beyond gap filling, and I didn't miss a single piece of detail
I want to thank you for this very informative, balanced and insightful, documentary. I feel that absolutely, everyone utterly, ignorant of what true and proper Communism is all about, should, really, watch this and learn something for a change. Again; Thank You. 🙂🖐🏼
"true and proper Communism" = 100+ million dead in the 20th century. HTH :)
The people who did this documentary should teach how to do them to Deutsche Welle and BBC. This was an unbiased documentary.