How to Do a Russian Revolution | Dan Snow meets Anthony Beevor (Part 1)

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and Lenin’s single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man’s inhumanity to man, woman and child. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative.
Dan Snow is an award winning history broadcaster and best-selling author. He has made dozens of TV shows for the BBC, Discovery, and other broadcasters. He is the host of one of the world’s biggest history podcasts with millions of listeners every month. He is the founder and Creative Director of the award nominated History Hit TV, an on demand history channel, described by the Wall Street Journal as the ‘Netflix for History.’ With vast numbers of paying subscribers Snow has proved a pioneer of digital history, the Times newspaper commented that “Snow is now the Mark Zuckerberg of Spitfires, the Elon Musk of the King Tiger Tank.”
Antony Beevor’s books have been appeared in thirty-three languages and sold over eight million copies. Antony’s last book Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. On KZbin, Antony has been featured on Hillsdale College, Leatha Steger, TIKhistory, Ezgi Cihan, C-Span, Times Radio, The Spectator, On The Same Page, and more.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

I recently retired and decided to take a DNA test and research my family tree. It has been a revelation- I have discovered a trove of information that has upended my family history. I discovered an uncle of my father that he had no knowledge of. The young boy was conscripted in 1917 and served on the Home Front but in 1918 due a shortage of manpower he was shipped out to Russia to fight for the White Russians against the Red Army in the civil war. He was killed in a battle close to Archangel in the far north of Russia 2 weeks after his 20th birthday and 2 weeks before the Armistice. My grandmother, his youngest sister, never mentioned him, there were no photographs. He was lost to history. Discoveries like this have reignited my interest in the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the political turmoil that followed in Russia and across the world. Of course we still feel the reverberations of these events over a century after they happened. The roots of the current conflict in Ukraine can be traced directly. to that time. It's all so depressing to watch as history appears to be repeating on some cruel time loop. Our world politics appear to be mirroring the period between the world wars with some spooky familiarity. It appears that we have learned nothing from history and are hell bent on making the same mistakes this time around. The parallels are all too frightening

[@davegreville501]

Without a doubt, amazing historian👍

[@stephenkerensky710]

In 1904, Schlieffen made his Plan for a quick German victory. Clausewitz agreed with him that a 2-Front war would be disastrous. Russia`s unexpectedly rapid mobilization in August 1914 made their prediction come true. President Wilson refused to join the Triple Entente because of Nicholas II`s massacres of Jews. The emergence of the Russia`s Provisional Government removed that obstacle and even military historians agree that the addition of the US Army tipped the balance. It also wiped out the participation of Austria-Hungary, which quickly began peace talks. After that things get more complicated but HIndenburg said Russia`s July Offensive wrecked his chances of victory in `1917 as he had to re-assign 6 Divisions to replace the gap on the Eastern Front left by the fleeing Austro-Hungarians. After the defeat of the Bolsheviks` July Rising, Lenin fled to Finland and asked his friends to publish his writings after his death. Only the farcical Kornilovschina changed his mind. Kerensky became a national hero for exposing the facts about the 1912 massacre at the British-owned Lena Goldfields in Siberia. On his journey there, he met "Babushka", Ekaterina Brezhko-Brezhkovskaya, who remained his staunch supporter even after she`d been given asylum in Prague. People looked to him politically because he knew the faults of the legal system from the inside, as a result of his successful career as a political barrister. For further analysis search Douglas Haig`s Diaries, "In My Life" by Hindenburg, The Archivist at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and "Memoirs of a British Agent" by R Bruce-Lockhart. There is also an excellently researched 2020 book by Peter Thompson "The Quest for Freedom" and our family archive at Birmingham University Special Collections.

[@jerryczech953]

president Wilson was biggest traitor of all .....They got him by his balls ,because he had a relationship with married women while professor on Princeton university ...Untermayer ,Baruch own him basicaly....Wilson pushed America into war ,with false flag Lusittania sinking ,Wilson was behind Czechoslovakia with Masaryk ( Crane ) ,Wilson was forced to help bolsheviks with US aRMY assistence in Siberia during civil war ,and most of all ..Wilson started FED and IRS ... and all for one relationship of married men with married women in 1912.....because they already own most important newspapers...

[@NorthSea-xb7jk]

where this talk took place?

[@mileskino8121]

this interview honestly sucked it was more of a drink with the buddies lets make fun of russia’s military failures undertone then a serious tone on the brutality of the the war that is currently going on in europe which should be taken alittle more seriously i dont blame antony beevor for this he wasnt asking the questions. this war isnt just a battle of the armies its a battle entirely almost dictated by economics through global trade and how putin is using this to squeeze europe to he breaking point with gas yet lets just joke about russia seriously i dont get it