Ten Minute History - The Russian Revolution (Short Documentary)

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This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the late Russian Empire under Tsar Nicholas II all the way to the USSR just before World War II. The first part of the Episode covers the social and political issues and changes until the February Revolution. The second part covers the October Revolution and how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin established the Soviet Union and how things changed. Without a doubt, the Russian Revolution was one of (if not the) most important event of the 20th century.
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Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

[@josephedmond3723]

Lenin: I will grant the people whatever they want. People: We want to be ruled by somebody else. Lenin: Now let's not get carried away.

[@Frederickthegreat425]

lol

[@donbarzinitut]

Nice meme except the civil war showed that wasn’t true.

[@smhjoe5971]

BritTrot Yeah cause all the dissenters were shot

[@ndup89]

Stalin: *Boner*!

[@donbarzinitut]

Smh Joe What did you expect the bolsheviks to allow themselves to be murdered ? One American general noted in the Far East that for every one person the reds killed the whites killed 100.

[@dmannen208]

”But the Duma was mostly useless and Nicholas II could still do what ever he wanted to” So basically just like the modern Duma.

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

More like Dumber & Dumber

[@Norsilca]

Russia's had a bad go of it for the last ..forever.

[@michellesheppard9253]

Has Russia ever been a non-autocratic country?

[@bastard-took-the-name-I-had]

@@michellesheppard9253 Novgorod before was some kind of a republic or oligarchy i think

[@lashlarue7924]

@@michellesheppard9253 briefly under Yeltsin. And Gorbachev was a benevolent despot, mostly. Otherwise, no.

[@MisterCynic18]

"My feet hurt!" Truly, the voice of the people

[@AT-dq5pr]

:-()

[@georgesmith6218]

True story. With the words "The guard is tired" a certain Constituent Assembly was forcibly dispersed and overnight the entry was nailed shut, ending its existence. You can't make it up.

[@yorgr1465]

@@georgesmith6218 woah

[@xamyrrah]

"Why are we speaking English" lmao

[@darreljones8645]

Even funnier because, technically, they're not saying anything, just carrying signs!

[@linnymiddy]

@@darreljones8645 the signs speak with letters tho

[@Cjnw]

Говорить поРусский??

[@andknuckles101]

@@Cjnw damn you got the whole squad laughing

[@firstcynic92]

The Czechoslovak Legion didn't return by going through Soviet territory. They went the long way, through Vladivostok. Some went by ship through the Indian Ocean, some around the world through the Panama Canal, before getting back to Europe.

[@mathewwhitford5730]

@Алексей Савицкий You're pretty funny. That's a funny joke.

[@miloskaluznik48]

@Алексей Савицкий When Russia pays for fucking eastern europe for half a century. Then maybe.

[@rankovasek1987]

@Сладенький Czech and Slovak minorities living in Russia volunteered to fight alongside Russians against Central Powers in exchange for the support of Czechoslovak independence. They were enlisted in the Russian army as regular soldiers and the brigade was extended up to 80 000 men strong corps (all Czechs and Slovaks). So yes, they were to be paid, such as any other Russian soldiers. As the revolution began, Czechoslovak legions were on the side of the Tsar, since he was the one guaranteeing their independence. The bolsheviks were against that and refused the Czechoslovak troops to move home, planning them to be sent in the work camps. Thus Czechoslovaks moved through the entirety of Russia, aiding whites and repelling anyone who refused to let them pass. Moreover, the Soviet Union caused much larger economic damage to both nations, with the mined natural resources, while under Soviet control. There is nothing to be paid and if someone should, it is Russia, yet nobody blames them now.

[@_badger_9902]

@Сладенький I wouldn't explained this better then @Ranko Vašek

[@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY]

They actually betrayed White General Kolchak and had him killed by the Bolsheviks.

[@Lynnvandenbrink]

'Things you need to get: -out' Amazing😂😂😂😂

[@alanmalan3819]

If Russian Revolution stopped whev Stalin begun collectivisation than USA civil war stopped when draw low begun

[@fulcrum2951]

What?

[@yatas024]

@@alanmalan3819 You off the goop bro?

[@Test-sd2qp]

are you a girl

[@Test-sd2qp]

@@alanmalan3819 goop

[@Kannongunnz]

"Why are we speaking English" fucking died

[@theultimateogrelord2783]

He left his Marx on history

[@wvrlyearp4683]

metalhead 93 actually it has. Engels' and Marx's writing were like the Holy Bible of the Communist Party

[@Red_Anon]

I mean that’s kinda where we get our ideas lol. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a bible or even a handbook. It’s more like a piece of influential literature that many different interpretations can be derived and practiced from

[@festethephule7553]

@@Red_Anon Sounds like the Bible to me. Or at least the Torah anyway.

[@alftupper9359]

TheUltimate... I prefer to come at it from another Engel

[@jerome1194]

@@festethephule7553 Talmud.

[@Exurb1a]

Please keep it up, this stuff is fantastic. Keenly waiting on more.

[@aseth9541]

Oh, hey. I love your content!

[@ThreeNinjaDucks]

exurb1a wow you watch this to

[@jlistergaming7880]

exurb1a followed the link from your video which I’ve watched about 4 times now. *multiple existential crises*

[@nokomashabaofficial2472]

I'll support your channel if you reply to me all you have to do is reply to my me and subcribe to me ill subscribe to you☝️💫

[@kuzev]

Love it when one legend drops a comment on another one's video

[@adamlatosinski5475]

Trotsky's hair IS amazing.

[@slipknotboy555]

Adam Latosiński Heh, blocky Trotsky coming up with his sign was great

[@edyrlima3581]

If both said then

[@grimmer2005]

"Im not saying its Aliens"

[@antonyrafter99]

He had a Jew fro.

[@mah9582]

@Tigran Abazyan No but he just gave trotskys hair a name. Trotsky was good and military mastermind

[@BodzioChomik]

In fact, in 1924, General Secretary wasn't very important. In next few years Stalin made it important.

[@sanspeur-uz4zy]

As General Secretary, Stalin hired people who were ready to support him against Trotsky.

[@robertrichard6107]

It was the only official position of any authority Lenin left behind I thought, or the way things got worked out with the power vacuum of Lenin's death. (Not unlike after J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972.)

[@themaniac2448]

@@elmascapo6588 60 million didnt die, check the population of the ussr, 60 million doesnt make sense

[@themaniac2448]

@@elmascapo6588 it wasnt 8 million, ot was between 1 or 2 million but it was the kulaks and ukrainians fault, altough stalin could deal with that without starving them

[@themaniac2448]

@@elmascapo6588 the census was made by the league of nations in that time.

[@Geobacter]

8:33 Maybe Stalin should have just kept on dancing happily through the flowers.

[@Petey0707]

Kulaks and western powers did help him tbh

[@robertrichard6107]

That was the only action that'd bring him around after the Fuhrer with the Charlie Chaplin mustache invaded (Barberroastednuts)

[@ComradeHellas]

Stalin received Russian with ploughs in 1923 and left with it Nuclear power plants in 1953. Bitch please...

[@Vilamus]

That's pretty much the story of Russian history for several hundred years. Decades and decades of stagnation then a powerful central leader suddenly drags Russia kicking and screaming into the modern era, more stagnation, then rinse and repeat.

[@tyaz6556]

@@HolgerLovesMusic the black book of communism is western garble

[@aj2godly]

10 minute history? More like 9 minutes and 59 seconds history!!

[@theartofwarapplied1738]

Are you the one that sued Subway?

[@joi9483]

ikr 🙄

[@winstonsmithdeservedtherat3811]

Fucking disgusting how he could lie to us like that.

[@arsalanw2001]

winstonsmithdeservedtherats it’s close to 10 minutes

[@ibrahimatteya5630]

@@arsalanw2001 did you not get the joke

[@joshuaarroyo7235]

"Failed to conquer Eastern Europe" Stalin: For now.

[@liolio7545]

Joshua Arroyo jews " consider it done"

[@ComradeHellas]

@@liolio7545 muh juws

[@robertrichard6107]

FDR gave Stalin permission to take over Eastern Europe on back of an envelope at Tehran.

[@ComradeHellas]

@@robertrichard6107 Stalin took Europe with his Red Army. He needed no permission. He had 4 times more troops and 2 times more tanks than the Americans and the British combined.

[@robertrichard6107]

@@ComradeHellas Eastern Europe; Uncle Joe didn't want a repeat of WWI or 1920. He requested not to halt Lend Lease supplys so we didn't, but it put off Overlord until 1944. Ike would give Patton choice intel, and he could run with it. But ol' Blood and Guts wasn't going to get a fifth star going into Eastern Europe, let alone Russia, Belarus et.

[@TheTdw2000]

2:41 "Down with this sort of thing" "careful now" nice reference.

[@zetsubouuu]

FINALLY someone commented this reference

[@TheMCzorro]

Reference to what?

[@elnic_kai]

god my history teacher loved this so much that he made us take notes on it. thus a literal 10 minute video became over 80 minutes. thanks.

[@anzarv]

Kai _ I made sure to make you know I disliked

[@BORLMBK]

My history teacher put a video from this channel on once for something about the FRG

[@FeatureHistory]

This is mad lit fam.

[@zawiszaczarny7876]

This is Russia :D

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

This is America.

[@Scottcels]

this is Patrick

[@dukes1993724]

Feature History NO! THIS IS PATRICK

[@yacqubmahamoud2874]

Feature History 7 Years war is better :D

[@vallgron]

How many Bloody Sundays are there

[@isaacpeachey8609]

Sunday just brings the massacre out in people.

[@dhruvbedi4039]

Yahir Tapia perhaps both

[@AveNullusMajestic]

Em, five...That Russian Bloody Sunday due to a vodka shortage or some Tsar or what not, The U2 Bono Bloody Sunday concert event, the other Irish Bloody Sunday due to the great Guinness & Whiskey depression of the 1970's and the Bloody Sunday where you get out of bed on Sunday and step on Lego in your bare feet and scream "Bloody Sunday!!!" and the islamic Bacon Sundae slaughter over none halal Subway sandwiches...

[@michaelmcginley1137]

There were two in Ireland, in November 1920 in Dublin during the Irish war of Independace from the UK, and in Derry in January 1972, when Catholics demanded more civil rights in Northern Ireland.

[@jasonmartin4775]

When Jesus ressurected?

[@user-em1sf3js9u]

That "long story short" really deserves a few more minutes to be honest. Stalin's consolidation of power and how he defeated the Left and Right Oppositions is really interesting and worthy to note in the video.

[@USSFFRU]

It can be forgiven, the video focused mostly on the Russian Revolution

[@ljbailey061]

A secret police force to kill, intimidate and strike fear in political opponents is definitely an interesting tactic and worth taking note.

[@diemonder]

i mean he only has 10 minutes to cover the whole russian revolution, many very interesting details will inevitably have to be left out to make the story cohesive and informative without missing the bigger picture. i'm sure you could make a video that's like 4 hours long and still miss some details.

[@DUFFAL02]

In short, Lenin basically tried to make sure it was known that Stalin was a power hungry psychopath and he should not take over after Lenin’s death.

[@HistoryMatters]

The next episode is 'The Unification of Germany (1805-1919)'. What else would you like to see?

[@betyoudidntknowthat1246]

Ten Minute History Cold war please :)

[@UltiBlue]

Ten Minute History - Portuguese Succession Crisis (1383-1385) would be fun :)

[@mirsadgamer6955]

Ten Minute History Formantion and dissolution of Yugoslavia.

[@fionntanobraonain1486]

Ten Minute Irish Troubles (1912-1998)

[@isabellabornberg2153]

cold war with focus on the ongoings in Germany

[@brianlam257]

No wonder people find history a difficult subject, coz it is a mess in its own right

[@Pikkabuu]

It is a mess if you try to remember every little detail and date. If you just learn the gist of it then you are perfectly alright.

[@generalr1700]

Pikkabuu yeah that’s why I enjoy history so much, it’s pretty much just a massive, overarching, and convoluted story

[@firemangan2731]

History has always been difficult, which what makes it ammusing and fun (for us student historians and real historians of course).

[@diemonder]

the thing with history is you have to memorize so much shit. i just can't do it the way schools teach it, like i don't care about every random empire from 4000 years ago. that being said, world war 1 and onwards is very interesting and i do enjoy learning about it on my own time. it's much better when you're not having to cram a million different details for an exam, and you can just learn as you wish. that's where you figure out what parts of history are interesting to you and what parts you really care to memorize.

[@luked2115]

"Lenin instituted reforms such as Universal Healthcare and Education as well as advancing women's rights." Me: That doesn't sound so ba- "He then gave himself rule over the country after the Bolsheviks lost in the elections." Welp.

[@c0sselburn]

The election for the constituent assembly was incredibly flawed. The largest party in Russia was the peasant based Socialist Revolutionary party which had split into a pro-Bolshevik left faction and an anti-Bolshevik right faction. This split did not become official until after the electoral lists were already sent out so there was only one SR option on the ballot. As the right SRs comprised the leadership of the unified party the lists were stuffed with right SRs. This had the effect of making the entire election incredibly unrepresentative because a majority of those who voted for the SRs supported the left SRs. Scholars agree that if there was an option for both SR parties on the ballot the Bolsheviks and left SRs would have won enough seats to form a coalition government, the same as the Soviet government at this period. By the way, the only reason the Soviet government became a one party system was because the left SRs betrayed the Bolsheviks and rebelled against them because they did not support ending the war.

[@liolio7545]

Supplemented Health bernie is joo right?

[@whocares317]

@@beegyoshi8797 universal basic income, seems nice, but Capitalism needs regulation, stuff like the cost of healthcare, medicine and housing should be regulated, otherwise you get the late state capitalism shit, where a house costs 30 years of wage, skyscrapers and houses are empty, because realestate moguls want to always make a profit.

[@giovanni848]

Sam1370 lol every communist government ever

[@comradeadam7470]

Lenin implemented some really progressive and good reforms! It's just a shame that he refused to accept the Democratic decisions of the people though. The Soviet Union would've been a very different place if he did. What's even more of a shame is the fact that Stalin reversed many of the progressive and good reforms that Lenin had put in place. Take for example Homosexuality. It was De-Criminalized under Lenin and then Re-Criminalized under Stalin.

[@blackpowderuser373]

"My hair is amazing." - Leon Trotsky, 1918

[@jshadowhunter]

Correction: The Czhecko-Slovakian legion traveled ALL-AGROUND the world to get back home, in other words, they had to cross the Syberia to Vladivostok, board ship to America and finally back to Europe.

[@rofllmaozedong]

6:05 So basically the Reds had better spawn locations than the Whites. Valve, pls fix

[@piyo744]

omfg why does red team get 2 scouts plz fix 6s valve

[@ComradeHellas]

@@liolio7545 The whites had the backing of 17 independent nations including Great powers such as UK, France, USA, Japan as well many factions within the Russian Empire, still lost, stop whining.

[@marxmags6189]

I do know thats a joke but it makes kinda sense that the reds stayed strong in the west. With cities and industry in that region a huge part of the population was workers who didn't own means of production and had nothing to loose if the reds sub stain power. In the rest of russia however the society was mainly agrarian and the people owned small amounts of means of production with their farms. At least what i am thinking, ain't a historian lol

[@ComradeHellas]

@@marxmags6189 You are more or less right

[@coltafanan]

Omg 😂😂😂

[@Readycent]

Fantastically well done, man. I just took 10 pages of notes, and I'm ready for my European History final tomorrow. I have a better understanding of the Russian revolution, even though I've read 20 pages from a History textbook. Your way of explaining things made things perfectly clear! Please keep doing videos like this!

[@ryrygoogoo]

How did u do in your exam?

[@TheBootyBamboozler]

@@ryrygoogoohe passed!

[@wassimulator]

Short, concise, but dense and relevant, great work, exactly what You’d need when you don’t have time to read a book to watch a full documentary but still want to have a general idea. Thank you!

[@NoaManic]

Trotsky: Permanent Revolution so that the USSR could survive with allies Stalin: No, no, no, that's not good Soviet Union: *Dies in 1991*

[@braytechexoscience2790]

There’s an issue of correlation and causation here; whenever interventionalim occurred, it tended to end up weakening the USSR. Also, it turned out that just because a country was Communist didn’t mean it’d support them at all; post Khrushchev, China never supported or aligned themselves with Russia again, and felt no obligation to prevent the collapse of the USSR in its clear early stages, e.g. sought no interventionalism in the 30 year stagnation of Brezhnev, which paved the way for the collapse

[@NoaManic]

Alex Dzerzhinsky That’s because you fail to realize that Communism isn’t 1 single ideology lol

[@braytechexoscience2790]

... I did, and that’s exactly why permanent revolution doesn’t work? You’re relying on everyone else agreeing with the exact same type of political ideology as you, lest the entire point of Trotskyism (strengthening the praxis of your own brand of communism through the rest of the world adopting it) be weakened

[@polpot6]

And with Trotsky it would’ve died in 1924

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

Alex Dzerzhinsky I mean technically the Chinese Government lended support to the short lived emergency government led by the Gennady Yanayev, but it failed miserably because shock, horror, terror of all terror’s, people didn’t want a return to harsh Soviet Authoritarianism

[@theinternetconsumer]

I go on KZbin all the time but literally NEVER comment. Today I choose to break my silence to tell you that you're videos are very well done and fun to watch. Kepp up the fantastic work m8.

[@HistoryMatters]

Thank you. There's many more to come.

[@tylerdurden3722]

Brady Newman ... lol do you sometimes "figuratively" never comment? (as apposed to "literally")

[@dannyfromyorkshire]

I totally agree, they're brilliant.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

your* Well you had your first comment and you failed. How do you feel?

[@fatherfountain1906]

@@tylerdurden3722 well no becasue if you never comment, you never comment.

[@casper6405]

"Was a certain Joseph stalin" ah you mean Russian mario

[@Rustycaddy17]

He was not Russian, he was Georgian Mario.

[@sovietagent9303]

Russian super man

[@looinrims]

That’s a great way to get shot in the USSR I commend you

[@DUFFAL02]

Technically Stalin is Georgian, but yeah

[@spaghettioragiettio223]

Can you do the forming of Italian states? Such as Roma, Naples and Papal States?

[@rileygardner2103]

I really want to see this one!!

[@denizyuksel5093]

And Tuscany,Milan, Siena, Parma, Sicily, Genoa, Venice.

[@christiancristof491]

Altar Göktunca Sicily is not a city, it's a region. There were many city states in it for a long time. Just like Tuscany. Florence but also Pisa and Siena ecc. All in the region of Tuscany. Apart from that, good choice.

[@cow_tools_]

He did it.

[@paisleepunk]

Your wish has been granted

[@williammerkel1410]

1:03 I still love how that is a pretty accurate type 38 on the right, although they would have been using the type 30 mostly since few type 38's were used in the Russo-Japanese war since it was introduced in 1905.

[@AlejandroGonzalez-fs5ez]

This is going to be a great channel

[@kennethc4391]

It is now. It is a great incipient channel.

[@lightningfletch5598]

It became even greater.

[@tonyballerxxxx]

Facts

[@asthanair1858]

Wow this is so much better than reading 30 pages of the textbook. It’s short , accurate and lists all the important events. And I love the way you explain things with brutal honesty and sarcasm 😂

[@Rexal_The_Saltiest_Brit]

2:30 Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen....

[@lukastefanovic5732]

Ra ra rasputin russias greatest love machine

[@jhonywalker002]

@heuheuheu hyuk hyuk I have no idea right now maybe i replied to the wrong comment

[@giovanni848]

heuheuheu hyuk hyuk lol

[@Confucius_76]

oh those russians...

[@history-jovian]

What the fu-

[@Kerriangel]

2:42 How is it that I have watched this dozens of times and only just noticed the Father Ted reference?

[@firemangan2731]

For people who do not know what the island in 1:29 is, its called Sakhalin.

[@RogueMetaHere]

I lost it when I saw the Emperor's reaction to Pyotr getting assassinated.

[@abeera1232]

The illustrations make me laugh so hard. Makes watching these vids for an exam so much more worth it

[@Zlonk7]

How kids look at you in public: 7:45

[@ashleyzhu3539]

These videos are so helpful! I always watch them twice so that I can focus on the history content as well as the funny animations and signs. I especially agree that Trotsky had great hair. Thank you so much.

[@roland20002000]

I love these video's. Although they only touch on the sides of events and are very simplistic at least if you want to understand world history they give you some basic fundamentals at which to start.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

videos* Why would you put an apostrophe there?

[@roland20002000]

@@PANZERFAUST90 I'm starting a linguistic revolution to change the world for the better. In my new linguistic world order the proletariat will never have to worry about the bourgeoisie criticising their reasonably acceptable, "you now what I meant so why make an issue of it", but often incorrect grammar.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@roland20002000 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL 🤣 Can I have a seat on the linguistic council? I'll purge all those who are counter-revolutionary to the new language.

[@roland20002000]

@@PANZERFAUST90 Well you did criticise my grammar so you should really be purged BUT like most revolutionaries I'm a power hungry hypocrite with no real morals. Welcome on board. P.S. Have you got any mates who may want to join?

[@DUFFAL02]

WOTWU!

[@gui.e.a.biblia]

Amazing again! Congratulations! I'm from Brazil, and here we do not learn European History with so much details and in a fast paced rhythm. Thanks! And please keep doing this amazing job!

[@renel8964]

7:44 wow Lenin totally looks like Charles manson.

[@DamianLopez-td3rc]

He looks like a crackhead

[@catlilicat]

@@DamianLopez-td3rc LMAAOAOA STOPPPSKWO

[@DamianLopez-td3rc]

@@catlilicat am I wrong

[@firemangan2731]

@@DamianLopez-td3rc You made the dude die of laughter, especially since lenin in the picture does look like he took a bunch of crack in one night 😂

[@bigballsgame5591]

NKVD wasn't the "secret police". It was just the police! The NKVD literally meant the minister of internal affairs. The secret section of the police force was the GPU. Therefore, yes, the NKVD-GPU was the secret police, but not all of the NKVD.

[@hassanghannam4005]

i swear youre one of the best channels out there on youtube, good job

[@rmazzella5303]

The Bolsheviks switched Russia over to the Gregorian Calendar-one of the few things that they did right.

[@user-lk3dy4uy8w]

*Just imagine how different it would have been if Trotsky was in charge instead of Stalin*

[@jbshiva865]

Just exchanging one tyrant for another.

[@madpig7120]

@@jbshiva865 not exactly. The USSR would have been far more aggresive

[@emanuelmartinez7267]

@@madpig7120 yup and most likely the USSR would have fallen much sooner under Trotsky's leadership. Stalin (and I can't belive I'm saying this as a US army veteran who's grandfather fought in Korea and uncle fought in Vietnam) had the right idea, worry about what we control at the moment fixing the economy and infrastructure and THEN try to expand our ideology to other nations. USSR was extremely large and had just gotten somewhat stable, spreading too thin so soon would just make things much harder to control

[@rayh6118]

An early cold war

[@fenceyhen4249]

There would've been actual Soviet democracy instead of every Bolshevik being murdered and socialism being reversed

[@noeticjustice1535]

Very well done. For a 10-min video, you included lots of points most (even "historically literate" people) have never heard of.

[@borisgurevich5504]

I feel the opposite. Very simplistic and superficial

[@trinitymertineit7675]

This video cleared up so much for me, I'm in history12 rn and i had such trouble understanding the timeline of events so this helped a lot! Thank you!

[@nowheregirl921]

Down with this sort of thing!- haha at the Father Ted reference! You rock!

[@tcc5750]

What a great new years eve gift! :)

[@thenationaltimelyactionhou9328]

As always, great video; well researched and well presented!

[@tomjones1506]

I loved the Father Ted reference! Down With This Sort of Thing!

[@sparkyhayes9543]

Careful now!

[@jessicasamways7134]

thank you! this video is very helpful for revision :)

[@samikshajuikar]

2:16 "Another event which was probably important was the first world war." lmao

[@ryanjamesbarr1465]

Stumbled upon your videos, great stuff! Would love to see a follow up to this one about the history and fall of the USSR.

[@Slam_24]

The Russian Revolution is so damn interesting. To think that we’re still seeing the effects of it today.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

Communism is a disease that just keeps killing.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@morgenholz7937 The free market is great. I can earn as much wealth as I care to try. I live quite well, thank you 😊💰💰💰 How's that bread line?

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@morgenholz7937 lol Yeah everyone is equally poor and impoverished but hey, no unemployment right? 🤣🤣🤣

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@morgenholz7937 LOL You sure are a funny one :) Have fun with your shitty economy and poor life.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@morgenholz7937 lol Sure, believe in your delusions, commie.

[@mo8guy]

You sir are becoming one of my favorite channels on KZbin!

[@BumMcFluff]

2:46 I enjoyed the subtle Father Ted reference. Made me smile.

[@asherherbstman1646]

Thanks for coming in clutch when I go the entire unit without taking notes in class and have a test tomorrow!

[@SSebstan]

did you pass?

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

You could do an entire 10 minute episode on Rasputin’s assassination. Also it’s either really cute or creepy how similar Nicolas II & George V of England looked. Like… they had the exact same face.

[@user-ld6hv2py7g]

They were distant cousins

[@09dinodino34]

Not that distant, they both had the same grandmother, Queen Vic

[@tifanyb3954]

​@@09dinodino34Queen Victoria was not the grandmother of Nicholas II.

[@violinlover4255]

This gave me more of an understanding of what the heck is actually going on in class than a 100 minute documentary that I was assigned to watch. God bless you.

[@josephcummings210]

To get so much information into 10 minutes is amazing!! thanks a lot

[@BigSmoke-ml2es]

3:17 my hair is amazing XD Those little guys with facial hair looks cute by the way

[@eby9296]

This the only revision ima do for history tomorrow lmfaooo thanks dude Edit: kinda regret that now

[@RamboSnoop]

These are great keep up the good work!

[@rodhitmanhart1]

I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work mate!

[@jonasvaananen]

4:24 most important part of the video

[@uekiguy5886]

0:19 -- "...abolished by Peter the Great in 16" -- Wow, he goes way back!

[@anchor7549]

Thank you so much I needed this!!

[@Mainyehc]

Trotsky’s hair was, indeed, amazing.

[@SSSupCreeper]

these videos are getting better and better man, keep it up!

[@j.c.mgomez2515]

Love the animations man, they always make my day.

[@dylanmcdowell3894]

These videos are GREAT. Subscribed, for sure.

[@robmurrah3224]

I fuckin' lost it when Trotsky showed up with the "my hair is amazing" sign

[@maggiehowell2437]

This video helped me beyond belief, i was really struggling on where to start for my Russia revolution revision! Thank you!!

[@jeffreybrewer8649]

Not one mention of Snowball, Napoleon, Mr Jones, or Benjamin ...

[@AB-eq9mm]

you make really great content! keep it up!

[@KineticHistory]

Great video mate!

[@UwU-xk5cx]

Kolchak was mostly a navy officer what would you expect putting him in charge of an army?

[@looinrims]

Not to commit war crimes and to keep basic discipline in the ranks

[@bluesaberproductions8991]

9:24 Actually, pre-war Tsarist Russia was projected to become an economic powerhouse by 1950. People in the west were afraid of its economic might.

[@jipeh]

Makes you wonder just how powerful the USSR would have been if people didn't kill each other. The US became the leading superpower exactly because of the two world wars, amongst the major powers it gained the most and lost the least.

[@bluesaberproductions8991]

@@jipeh Well, the USSR likely wouldn't have existed without WWI (Lenin's "bread, peace, land" promise), and it might not have gained its status as a world power if it weren't for the second world war (which was the nail in the coffin for the European empires and effectively left USA and USSR as the dominant powers). The loss of Germany and Austria Hungary also left a vacuum in eastern Europe which the USSR filled; likewise, the decline of western Europe allowed the US to dominate affairs west of the Iron Curtain. Still, without the world wars, Tsarist Russia and the US would likely become leading powers, albeit without the overwhelming dominance created by the collapse of the old European empires. Especially since Russia would not have suffered the catastrophic loss of population and industry to the war, let alone the turmoil of civil war.

[@MTH444]

@@bluesaberproductions8991 No, the Tsardom would have probably collapsed in WW2 if not for being overrun. We see its economic groqth, the biggest factor in war to be projected by 1950. The Tsardom would have been to weak ho fight and Nikolas the second was an idiot. At least Stalin did something right in WW2

[@bluesaberproductions8991]

@@MTH444 Stalin made huge blunders and was totally unprepared for the German invasion. He nearly had a mental breakdown when it came. Whereas under the tsars, Russia was constantly prepared for war, and they had an alliance with France. Whereas the USSR had no allies, only temporary co-belligerents. Remember, Russia was one of the first countries to begin developing submarines. Their military was fairly advanced under the tsars. And I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have had armies of white Russian exiles willingly joining the Axis to "liberate" the homeland without a Stalin in power (although assuming Poland was still under Russian rule, they and other ethnic groups could pose a problem).

[@MTH444]

@@bluesaberproductions8991 So you eccuse the dact that Nicolas himself was a terroble leader. He was a blithering idiot, no other way to put it

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!

[@jamesbodnarchuk6245]

Love your vids! Keep em comin!

[@bonkybrian5243]

If anyone was wondering more about the Czechoslovakian legion the channel Kings and Generals did a very well made video on them

[@BeeSavior]

This This is gonna help me a lot in my final project

[@saskia9046]

this was SO helpful thank you!

[@benedictcoltman1983]

That was superb! Thanks indeed

[@m.d.9277]

am I 4 years late? Yes, did I just see a father ted reference at 2:42 so damn it? Also yes

[@C-Doge7577]

Great video. I think at one point or another you should do a video on the doctors plot, there isn't much out there on it.

[@someguythatlookslikeme8306]

I love these! Great job!!

[@sejalvshah]

Man, I love these videos.

[@Tonysoprano15]

8:14 looks like the nostalgia critic

[@Tonysoprano15]

Lol haha nostalgia critic is awesome

[@looinrims]

Makes sense since he’s a knob just like the people depicted

[@Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it]

Russia hasn’t had the best history

[@EenRandomPizzaDoos]

Really good video. Thank you.

[@ahedge3385]

Currently doing this topic for IGCSE. Vid really helped with mocks, thanks.

[@brick7386]

Me: oh a short ten minute video which will give me a few notes- perfect! Me after an hour: how did I end up with 5 pages 😭✋

[@alisa_ilse]

I found this when I looking for videos for my Revolutions class this year and it's been really helpful giving me a basic overview and now I can work from that adding more detail! Later this year I am also looking at the Chinese Revolution so it would be amazing to have a video for that if possible! Love your videos!

[@anthonystromeyer9623]

What do the Founding Fathers, the Jacobin Club and the Bolsheviks have in common? They build stuff and use the same tools.

[@milesbrown8016]

Good documentary. Short and sweet 👌🏻.