Origins of the First World War, pt. 5 -- Russia
We examine the geography and history of Russia, from the origins of the Kievan Rus in the Early Middle Ages, to the tumultuous time of industrialization, emancipation, and radical subversion at the start of the Twentieth Century. We try reconstruct the circumstances and mindsets that led the Russian state to back up their allies in Serbia, in order to maintain their tenuous foothold in the Balkans and their pretenses of leading and protecting the Slavic world.
image: Luzhetsky Monastery, Mozhaysk, Russia
Suggested further reading: Braithwaite, "Russia: Myths and Realities"; Kort, "A Brief History of Russia"; Riasanovsky, "A History of Russia"
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Excellent study of Tsarist Russia. This channel has consistently good content. He's a true expert and highly listenable. His content is among the very best on youtube.
I just finished the whole thing, I learned some good stuff here! However I feel the title is a bit misleading, the final 30mins or so of this lecture was what I was looking for. The first hour or so was too much out of context for me. I wanted to learn about Russia and her build up to ww1, talking about medieval Russia for so long was quite irrelevant to ww1. You could have summarised the history of Russia up until the 1800s in about 10 mins, not 45! I didn’t expect it lol
By the time Churchill have that interview, Russia had also invaded Poland from the east. Seems very disingenuous to demonise German action but gives no mention of the Soviet invasion. At the time that interview was given Stalin’s kill count was about 10 million, Germany’s was about 10k. Always am sickened by the double standards, the righteous indignation from Britain when Germany went to war with Poland, and then the ‘oh it’s in their national interest’ when Stalin does the same thing.