What Happened During the Russian Revolution 1917? (Documentary)

[@TheGreatWar]

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[@karlvandeven751]

😊😊

[@meilinchan7314]

Oh man, someone is covering WW1 cuisine - Max Miller. You should contact him.

[@eugenlitwin5887]

a wrong title. edit for you : Why the ALL Muscovite empires have ALWAYS Failed.

[@johnstanczyk4030]

I came for the February Revolution, but stayed for the October Revolution. -Anonymous prisoner in Lubyanka

[@johnanita9251]

You get an extension and may visit boertirka. Hope you enjoy your (short) stay...

[@bmyers7078]

Of course. There are a lot of stairs to walk down. The Lubyanka Building is the tallest in Moscow. You can see Siberia from the basement.

[@atakorkut5110]

Underrated comment

[@mango4ttwo635]

A key reason for the collapse of the February Revolution was the lack of trust between radicals/workers, and the professional/liberal class. This was down to the results of the 1905 Revolution when the rulers split the seemingly victorious rebels by offering the "professional/liberals" major concessions to their goals as long as they ditched the alliance with the radicals who wanted more socialist or labourist reforms. Liberals acquiesced. Radicals no longer trusted them, so when February 1917 happened, two Parliaments were set up: the official one, and the shadow Soviet "parliament" in the same building, that was keeping an eye on the liberals such as Kerensky. This lack of trust became fatal for the February Rev.

[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

Hatred between the middle-class and the lower classes is the smartest thing capitalism ever did.

[@Schwarzie10]

​@@DrVictorVasconcelosYou act like capitalism is a person and not just a tool that humans use like literally everything else.

[@johnteixeira1791]

@@Schwarzie10 You're talking to a socialist, what did you expect?

[@PeterPan54167]

@@johnteixeira1791Yeah sort of his fault for expecting an intelligent conversation with a socialist.

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

The prov government was not a parliament. It consisted of a group of leaders from different parties that acted as ministers, with Kerensky as a sort of PM. The old Duma was not in session after the Feb revolution. The only body acting like a parliament was the Petrograd Soviet. It was the Soviet that held the actual power even before the October revolution

[@iandonnelly6684]

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS.

[@VladTevez]

Russian Revolution failed because Rocky Balboa defeated Ivan Drago on Christmas Day 1985 and called for change!

[@Adelina-293]

I thought Patrick Swayze and some Colorado teenagers did that.

[@datadavis]

@@Adelina-293 Never forget David hasselhoffs contribution.

[@skypilot7162]

If I can change, you can change! ANYONE CAN CHANGE!!!

[@martindavis9930]

Wolverines !

[@martindavis9930]

​@@Adelina-293Wolverines!

[@youngimperialistmkii]

"The Woman's death battalion." Great band name! \m/

[@VarmilMorr]

It's a long tradition of rock, metal or alt bands being named after historical events. "Joy Division" is the first that comes to mind

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

Perfect timing, I have been playing a game called The Last Train Home where you play as the Czech legion trying to get out of Russia during the Russian Revolution.

[@АлександрБоханов-ж1э]

жаль в этой игре нет роликов или заданий по геноциду мирных жителей как в реале это было у чешских легионеров

[@TheGreatWar]

I played that last year when it came out, really cool concept!

[@Ghjkoplokkp]

These Czechs fought in the White Army right?

[@KPW2137]

@@Ghjkoplokkp not necessarily. They were a separate force and sometimes clashed with both sides.

[@thiagovidal8972]

Czechs which supported the evil mustache .

[@РыжийСтарпом]

Просто керенский так сильно боялся путча справа, что полностью пропустил вооруженное восстание слева. Ну и эти интеллигенты социалисты - керенский, чернов, церетели и прочие были горазды только болтать, не желая брать на себя власть. В июле 1917 только троцкий спас лидера партии эсеров чернова от матросов, когда те буквально требовали от чернова брать власть в свои руки.

[@DazedandInsane]

The US is in that same position now

[@indianajones4321]

Here for the best history channel on KZbin

[@TheGreatWar]

and stay for the punchline at the end

[@rursus8354]

Agreed!

[@tjbellah349]

No glazing, but yes, they are very entertaining and well studied

[@mbrofoc]

Actually worst. Very biased

[@ПетрВрангель-т8п]

You misspelled worst

[@martinrozo9221]

Sound design is getting better and better. Thanks for the amazing content!

[@easyegg9760]

I’ve read a few books on this and this is honestly a great summary considering it’s only slightly over 20 minutes. I think the one individual that would have been worth mentioning is stolypin. Some consider him to be the true “last statesman” and if I remember he was also very against the war

[@john32190]

Anybody who enjoyed this video should check out Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. He does 103(!!!) episodes on the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Can't recommend it highly enough

[@g.j.2950]

That is a great podcast series

[@robertshonk518]

Great series. But there wasn't enough background information. It should have started with the Big Bang.

[@ANotSoBoringGuy]

Best history channel on KZbin you guys are so underrated more people need to here about this channel and especially your series week by week of WW1

[@dionizoskafari439]

Make a video on the Carpathian winter campaign of 1915! In terms of casualties it is as bad as verdun or the somme but it gets 0 coverage.. "Blood on the snow" by Graydon Tunstall is a great source

[@hlynnkeith9334]

Jesse, Funny closing line. I laughed. BTW I like your narration. IMO you get better each time.

[@davidscott3820]

Im a 70 year old american, retired air force, cold war veteran and love history! ❤ thank you for your series.😊

[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

If you don't know Cold War Conversations, you should. One of the things it is is just people like you having a chat with the host, and it's brilliant.

[@liverpool666]

What is cold war veteran ? Sorry.

[@davidscott3820]

@liverpool666 1945-1991 war against communism. Threat of nuclear war. Spies. American and Russian bombers with nukes flying close to each other's borders 24hrs a day. Secret missions. American/french/British taken prisoner by the russians and sent to slave labor camps in siberia never to be seen again. Soldiers killed on secret missions in north Vietnam, Bolivia, angola...and families told "missing in action" or killed by accident on a training mission. All to keep ww3 from happening. The drug war was also part of the cold war.

[@overbytex2]

Cold War Veteran, LOL

[@josephrobson2339]

It was called the cold war because it never went hot. I guess the american version of the Queens Jubilee medal is the Cold War medal.

[@alansmithee8831]

There was enough here for a few videos. Shame to rush through it really, but then again, it was a ruthless time.

[@daveanderson3805]

Great work. Well done 👍

[@bigsarge2085]

Incredible, always learn something new!

[@oneshotme]

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@shayanerhaghi9168]

I haven't seen this yet but really glad to see you guys again

[@rursus8354]

Marvelous video! (Watched it twice)

[@versiable8041]

Great Video! Will there be a future video about how Kurdistan almost became a country/why Kurdistan didn't become a country after WW1? It's a huge part of modern Middle Eastern history.

[@ElWillyNacho]

Amazing work!

[@maximilianoortiz42]

Nice Job! Its one of the most accurate videos i have seen about the russian revolution (even if the title is a little condescendet). Theres some more information about the "derrotist" strategy by a wing of the bolchebist party in john reed's "ten days that shook the world", initially Lenin is onboard with this focus, but the debate with Trotsky about this make him change his mind. Also, there are a lot of more information about the uprising in petrograd and the Kornilov coup attemp, and something that is not mention in the video, about the role of the cadett party.

[@BlackWhite-ue5vc]

Great work 👍

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Another wonderful historical coverage episode about Russian revolution failure in 1917...it was an informative series work. Introduced all political, economy, and social circumstances found and combined in Russia 🇷🇺 from Russo-Japanese war 1905 until 1918 ... this magnificent work was shared by an excellent [🙏RTH] channel. Thank you for sharing

[@mustafabostanci6423]

btw if you are interested you should read "ten days that shook the world" by john reed.

[@mensch1066]

Am I missing something, or do you have the same picture for both Axelrod and Martov?

[@SCB-dd4io]

Excellent!

[@MrLorenzovanmatterho]

Everyone should watch Reilly Ace of Spies

[@SAMTOKHISTORY]

Just about to teach this to my year 9s!

[@mrl2091]

Teach them about that

[@pagodebregaeforro2803]

Thanks. From Brasil.

[@theeNappy]

I mean, it didn't fail, it overthew the Tsar. It did fail to prevent a 2nd revolution.

[@micahistory]

great video

[@thewidow7864]

did it tho?

[@thewidow7864]

of course it did, who am I kidding

[@rdallas81]

​@@thewidow7864it did

[@mango4ttwo635]

aaah, the first Revolution?

[@MartinozYT]

>Thinking of Kaiserreich's lore when watching the movie

[@MUHAMMADAWAIS-g6y]

Brother make a documentary on battle of pasendale pls😢

[@natheriver8910]

Very interesting

[@mrkrembo1942]

welcome back, secratery general

[@82dorrin]

The Soviets lost the Cold War when an American Boxer named Rocky Balboa defeated Soviet fighter Ivan Drago. This led to citizens of the USSR becoming fans of Sylvester Stallone and rejecting Communism. (Citation needed)

[@TheGreatWar]

I've seen that documentary

[@Adelina-293]

Approves in Wolverines.

[@Poctyk]

Source: This was once revealed to me in a dream

[@Antonio18677]

@@TheGreatWarwhere did the old commentator go?

[@GregoryGonzalez-hc4yv]

lol 😂

[@p00bix]

17:58 Where did you find this image? Are the names of the men in this photo known?

[@hanbyeol12]

kalinin lenin, trotsky rykov, dzherzinsky, chicherin, lunacharsky semashk, kursky, krestinsky, schmidt

[@p00bix]

@@hanbyeol12 The image immediately before that. With the two men guarding the entrance to the cabinet

[@hanbyeol12]

@@p00bix oh damn my bad idk where they got it

[@audreykarsons1286]

Excellent

[@zoperxplex]

The failure of democratic revolution in Russia was a turning point not just for Russia but for the entire direction of Western Civilization. Up to then the path of Western Civilization was lurching forward towards ever greater individual liberty and representative democracy. There was an assumption that any abrupt and violent change such as a revolution would eventually end up with providing people greater freedom and a larger voice in public affairs. This was the era were Woodrow Wilson could inspire people at home and abroad with the slogan of making "the world safe for democracy." That illusion was shattered by the unquenchable despotism of the Bolsheviks and their blind quest to superimpose their vision of the Proletarian Paradise upon the Russian masses. The success of the Bolsheviks revolution eventually made their totalitarian model, the polar opposite of Western style democracy, a tangible threat. It took forty years before the Marxists/Leninists model would meet its long yearned for demise. By then one might conclude that Western Democracy, despite its victory, had sustained a grevious, irrevocable, bodily harm.

[@carinaslima]

Democracy bad Communism bad Fascism bad Anarchism bad

[@ntesdorf]

This is a very detailed and systematic history of the events of 1917 in Russia and the later actions of the Communist Regime.

[@eruno_]

will you cover Baltics independence wars (against Bolsheviks and Bermontians)? Or is that already covered sufficiency by other videos?

[@TheGreatWar]

there are some older videos covering that, but we are gearing up to remaster some of our Russian Civil War coverage.

[@eruno_]

@@TheGreatWar Thank you!

[@San_Vito]

​@@TheGreatWarGreat to hear. That was my favorite series! The beginning of the "interwar" period is usually not covered by anyone. I guess there was too much stuff going on at the same time.

[@egertroos-qh7hw]

​@@eruno_where are you from?

[@richardcordella4147]

I see that Sean McMeekin's book is a source. Yet I wonder if you should have relied on it more. The northern fronts actually had high morale, higher than the troops in Galicia. The Petrograd food riots were based off of rumors more than actual food shortages. Germany had a much larger hand than generally realized in Lenin's rise to power. I trust this source because it relies heavily on Russian archives, the true original source.

[@nathanweitzman9531]

Any link to the cited book "1917: The Weeks When Decades Happened" by Sarah Badcock? I'd very much like to read it but casual google/amazon search doesn't bring it up and would really appreciate a link Love your videos, btw

[@reclhoss]

This all seems too familiar.

[@extrahistory8956]

Didn't you guys make like an entire series based on the Russian Revolution and Civil War?

[@TheGreatWar]

we didn't quite cover the Russian Revolution in much detail, especially not the Provisional government

[@gloverfox9135]

19:25 he just described Russia today

[@Styphon]

4:21 If only a general strike had interfered in the 1914 mobilization. You know, the one that led to Germany declaring war.... We might have had the AH-Serbia conflict of 1914, with no further repurcussions.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Nope, ww was inevitable.

[@Willindor]

3:16 Ah yes, the man who's survival of an assassination attempt inadvertently led to the creation of lolicon. Thanks for that Tabby, you should have stuck with verifying your clock and finding Alexei instead of playing assassin

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Can you do a video on what if Kornilov's coup had succeeded what would have changed? Would there still be a civil war?

[@Some_Average_Joe]

I don't even know if that's possible. Very little is known about his motives from what I understand.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@Some_Average_Joe There was a regime chance and civil war but still, he would have been preferable to the reds.

[@ToxiCisty]

This will happen in Merica

[@23Drazse]

In the summer of 2023, the possibility arose again to overthrow the power of the tsar, but it turned out differently. "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

[@criscabrera9098]

Putin is not a tsar and he never will be

[@Welsh2505]

Watch Europa the last battle for the answers.

[@jwbuq9qb]

3:45 that is not Julius Martov.

[@samuelbean9928]

Lenin ate while many starved!

[@065Tim]

Somehow Lenin has a very positive image in the West. Lenin already built the first gulags.

[@theodorleberle]

I bought a Nebula subscription because of you. :)

[@TheGreatWar]

thanks for the support

[@adamtank1746]

Can you do a video on the Makhnovshchina please?

[@TheGreatWar]

we will do some more Russian Civil War coverage again soon, yes

[@dcanedemboyz7431]

Because they didn't seize the means of revolution (guns)

[@Giantcrabz]

strange premise

[@TheSci-fiAnarchist42]

Bruh, you guy's used the same picture for both Axelrod and Martov. What gives?

[@sixolisiwedabula2249]

@3:39 chat is that Julius martov?

[@dirremoire]

To be fair, the Bolsheviks actually did use the requisitioned grain to feed workers in the cities who were desperate for food.

[@Schwarzie10]

Was that before they started selling their grain to foreign countries? I really don't know the in depth details of the Russian revolution but last I knew they began exporting grain almost immediately and on a mass scale to help support themselves financially. Can someone shed some light or correct me?

[@thebandofbastards4934]

​@@Schwarzie10I think that was with Stalin

[@dirremoire]

@@Schwarzie10 Yes, that was well before they started selling grain. The grain selling started after the civil war.

[@jangrosek4334]

@@Schwarzie10 Yes, it was the period between 1920 and 1930. But little is said that the workers became a privileged class for whose welfare the peasantry was exploited + the former nobility, the bourgeoisie and even many members of the middle class turned into outcasts

[@McLarenMercedes]

@@Schwarzie10 Was that any different from what the Czar did before?

[@janchromec1606]

You meant CzechoslOvAk Legion I guess

[@croatia0728]

I am shocked at how balanced this video was at portraying the viewpoints of the workers, bolsheviks, and the others, most history channels just blindly oppose the bolsheviks. Thank you!

[@Bob.W.]

International Women's Day. That explains things. :)

[@davozit2920]

It didn't

16:04 Aurora is definetly not a Battle Cruiser :) But a "protected Cruiser". Nitpicking aside, great Video once again. It is fascinating to think how different world history could have been if some relatively "small" events had played out differently.

[@TheGreatWar]

What's a "protected cruiser", is that a Russian specialty?

@@TheGreatWar To the best of my knowledge it was a ship calss witch was used universally in the late 19 and early 20 century. Its distinguising feature was apparently its armoured deck. A battle Cruiser on the other hand is a ship class which came into beeing later. Its manin focus was on scouting for the battle line and killing enemy raiders. They had battleship grade armaments, but not protection and a higher speed.

[@TheMormonPower]

Still trying to make a buck off of 16 days in Berlin...like 5 years after it was made... incredible 😅

[@duckman12569]

"The advanced class, the most oppressed by capitalism, is entitled to use compulsion" against the proles.. the rationalisation hamster is given growth hormone under the revolution apparently

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

Failed?

[@lookoutforchris]

lol, communism always fails, even from the very start. It’s always a crime.

[@dirremoire]

There were two revolutions: 1917 failed, 1918 successful.

[@The_king567]

It did

[@The_king567]

@@dirremoireboth failed

[@HHVVNN]

@@The_king567 How so?

[@docvaliant721]

Let’s look up early life for these “revolutionaries”.

[@criscabrera9098]

You misspelt criminals and bandits

[@vincestapels2022]

And the fact these "individuals" were funded gold bullions by Wall Street and bankers...

[@2ndavenuesw481]

It wasn't called a "failure" in the left-liberal-academic caste until the Berlin Wall came down. This is why when Castro took power in 1959, the Huntley-Brinkley Report asserted that "Cuba is returning to normality."

[@Betweoxwitegan]

Yes it was... The majority of leftists disagreed with Leninism and most favoured a revisionist and democratic approach, the academic left were largely critical of Lenin, Bolshevism, Stalin, Mao, etc, etc. Normality is not always better, that is a logical fallacy. Castro succeeded in many respects but ultimately made too many mistakes and his ideology and actions were too flawed to ever permanently succeed. Creating democracy through tyranny and authoritarian dictatorship never works

[@065Tim]

Time and time again left intellectuals went to the Soviet Union and saw what they wanted to see. A successful country that achieved equality. No mention of the ones who had to pay the price to uphold this Utopia. More than 30 years of 30.000 gulags. Even today, the failures of the system are blamed on the leaders alone. Still the idea of a Marxist egalitarian state seems like the ultimate goal in left wing circles. Still the intellectuals are focussed on what they want, not what they have. On what they get, not the price to pay. An arrogant idea that they could do it better than Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc etc etc

[@CodeElement190]

For the algorithm!!!

[@FenderBender5150]

Yes The Workers...The Workers will own everything and therefore have ALL the power.. ..Aha

[@bogdandrugov2127]

18:24 Russia did not enter 1918 becoming a single-party state as by the law all socialist and moreover leftist parties were allowed. Also before the left-SRs rebellion, bolsheviks joined their forces and shared power with them

[@easyegg9760]

I mean they banned anyone that was a threat to their power structure, and by 1921 only communist parties were allowed, and by 1929 it was officially a single party state.

[@vadimanreev4585]

Who can say that in the First World War, any government that entered the war had noble goals? Why should a Russian peasant kill Austrians, Hungarians, Bulgarians? Why did the British and French have to shoot Turks and Germans? Why did they have to kill soldiers from the Entente in response? As soon as the Russian troops began to ask this question, military discipline immediately went down, and the soldiers became imbued with the revolutionary spirit.

[@bosnbruce5837]

justice...

[@DAToft]

I have to say, I'm disappointed in this video using AI-generated images here (15:12, and other times as well). This is far below the historical standard set by The Great War channel. I really hope you won't continue using AI-generated or assisted content at all, such as upscaling or filling in gaps in photographs. I'd rather see broken photographs knowing that they are still an intact historical source.

[@varana]

I seriously doubt that this image has been _generated_ by AI. Upscaled, probably, it looks a bit like that. But not generated.

[@DAToft]

​@@varana The man in the middle has seven fingers. Even if AI generation has been used to fill in missing spots from the original photography, it's still AI generation.

[@ajwong4375]

@@DAToftthat’s just a simple misunderstanding, Russians use to be born with 7 fingers. This was before Stalin ofc, and a main reason the rest of Europe looked down on the Russian people. Stalin eventually had all the extra fingers cut off and used in stews while everyone was starving to death decades after this video took place. Within a decade Russians stopped being born with 7 fingers 👉🏻👈🏻

[@robertjarman3703]

Bolivia: No coastline, still has a navy, is useless. Czechoslovakia: No coastline, had a navy, defeated the Red at Lake Baikal.

[@teranoob838]

1:25 / 24:35

[@pietervonck3264]

The revolution failed the moment the soviets were cast aside, and trotski destroyed the rebellion of the kronstadt garrison. On the other hand, they just won the civil war and considered the kronstadt rebellion to be an invitation for renewed counter-revolutionairy movements

[@flabarre9776]

Kudos on the pronunciation of non-English words!

[@BaneofBots]

This will useful for my history exam coming up in a few months! Shame it came too late for my VCE unit though.

[@dirremoire]

Word of caution: Jesse and his team have produced a terrific, well-balanced history of the Russian Revolution(s) of 1917-18. However, when it comes to your exam - facts be damned, just give your teacher the answers he/she/they want to see

[@ThomasBoyd-lo9si]

Awesome thanks. Brilliant content on this. Kingdom of Italy survived it politically Thomas. My Grandad Italian Captain Bargi Italy. Italy Republic 🇮🇹. 1914 to 1918. Great War. Support STV voting system for UK general election in England London House of Commons. Italy has PR voting system for Italy general election.

[@williamtell5365]

It doesn't make any sense to say the revolution failed. If you mean to say the February revolution failed, then say it precisely. For Marxist Leninists, it was an almost unqualified success, leaving Lenin at the helm and the Bolsheviks in absolute power. Did that regime fail? Ultimately, it obviously did but that story brings us to the end of the century.

[@biologicalengineoflove6851]

That's the Garford-Putilov armored car at 12:00, built on chassis imported from the US. AKA the garbage truck by some battlefield 1 veterans

[@Tommy-jl9dm]

Capitalism is the winner. I want freedom i want ownership i want payment that i negotiate for the work i do. I do not want big government i dont want too many rules or laws i dont want to be looked after financially by the government. I want low taxes to pay for basic needs such as critical infrastructure

[@ama-gii]

ви не згадали про найперший соціалістичний регион після промислової революції - Вільні Території України 1917 року під проводом Махна

[@rowanyuh6326]

I thought they got rid of Tsar and industrialized but maybe I’m trippin

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

The USSR didn't actually industrialize until Stalin came to power and that was forced industrialization. Stalin loved his five-year plans. And tractors. Big, hulking tractors.

[@el5880]

They did

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Russia was already industrializing under the Tsar, the bolsheviks only did so by 1930s.

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

@@itinerantpatriot1196 what do you mean by "forced" industrialization, forced how?

[@Betweoxwitegan]

​@@raymondhartmeijer9300forced relocation, forced labour, forced quotas, forced plans, etc

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

Pretty reassuring to know everyone in this video is no longer alive.

[@samwill7259]

Worker reform and ending the war. If Kerensky had done those he probably could have ridden it out.

[@TheGreatWar]

yep, totally ended the war - in 1923

[@dirremoire]

Yep. Kerensky showed his true spots as soon as he came to power. I don't feel sorry for him in the least.

[@samwill7259]

@@dirremoire Turns out when you come to power as a democrat, you actually have to work for the people or they can WITHDRAW support

[@happydays1999]

Appropriating 😆 thats a nice way to put it

[@joiedevie3901]

Ты отличный историк и развлекающий учитель, Джесси. Я люблю тебя!

[@Gigithewlis]

As a person of Russian descent I find it so sad to watch 🫣😥😿

[@SornGeorge]

*descent

[@АлександрБоханов-ж1э]

порядочный русский это какой?антикомми?

[@Gigithewlis]

@@SornGeorge it was a typo, thanks

[@dirremoire]

Why? By 1928, the standard of living for the common people of Russia had improved dramatically and by the 1950s, the USSR became the world's second superpower. An amazing accomplishment in just a few decades.

[@carinaslima]

@@dirremoireThrough oppression.

[@vadimanreev4585]

In May 1949, the creator of the theory of relativity, Einstein, described his views on the question of socialism in the article "Why Socialism?" It would be nice for critics of Socialism to read this article.