What is Going On In Russia? Prigozhin Rebellion.

Thi s video discusses the military rebellion in Russia? What is it? an act of defiance? an act of desperation by a super-patriotic hero? Is it a well-prepared mutity by an overambitious field commander? Or is it a well-prepared attempt to destabilize Russia authored in Kiev or maybe even in London?
Dr. Brovkin is a Russian-born American historian now retired who served as an Associate Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University. He is the author of Russia After Lenin, Behind the Frontlines of the Civil War, The Mensheviks After October, Dear Comrades, Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofe (in Russian) and other books. available on Amazon

[@athennacurie5691]

Well said and thank you! The best and most sane explanation available on KZbin platform and elsewhere of what is really happening in Russia.

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Wow, thank you!

[@Jazzavi12]

Your prescience of the trend of events in Russia are unmatchable. It is obviously derived from your prodigious knowledge of its history, society and culture. Thank you Dr Brovkin.

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Thank you

[@nikolamarkovic2876]

Thanks for video

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Most welcome

[@Itsfineweerallfine]

I also hope that it becomes cooler where you are. It is SO HOT everywhere in the northern hemisphere, and we are al trying all trying our best to adjust. Much love and thankfulness to you and your work 🙏🏽

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

thank you

[@eleanorkett8183]

Thank you for your comments on this confusing situation.

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bluemoondiadochi]

Thank you for clarifying this confusing situation! One thing you said at 8:50 that factories working round the clock got me interested: could you weight in on how the state system "woke up" after war started and what exactly does "kicking into gear" for war mean? what's being done? and i don't mean only the factories, what other measures are being taken? and are they falling back on soviet (or soviet inspired) systems to better manage the war effort? do we see prioritization of minerals and ores for war production? do we see more mining? how is re-training the conscripts going? How is the draft effecting the economy and what's being done about that? and what's going on with apartment credits of people who are drafted? i remember there was an issue there, a clash between modern economic reality and mobilization which is a relic institution predating apartment credits. Perhaps this could be a topic for a video? To my knowledge contemporary Russia is the only example we have of a large country very seriously gearing up for a (almost total?) war that will decide it's future in upcoming decades, so it's a (bit morbidly) interesting topic. But anyhow, thank you for keeping us updated!

[@thenewpopulists]

Good call!

[@robertbuc8082]

10:50 can't belive how well you managed to nail it 9 months ago

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

thanks

[@jdmack1]

Excellent commentary 👍

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Glad you think so!

[@theAxehound]

Coincidental timing with the failure and cancelation of the Ukrainian Offensive. Prigozen has no loyalty to Russia and had two Sabbatean Frankist fathers, so I will assume where his loyalty lies.

[@LKaramazov]

Great to see you Doctor. This must be why Stalin purged so many people, to put fear into the generals so they wouldn’t even think about this. Where is the NKVD? Shouldn’t an agent be right there next to prigozhin at all times to prevent this?

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

I do believe that Putin has his men to watch over both Prigozhin and Shoigu.

[@LKaramazov]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 well then, how could this possibly have happened? Was Putin too trusting ? EVERYBODY knows the NKVD is supposed to be there and everybodies supposed to be afraid. I always thought that was the Russian way! 🤣

[@bornatona3954]

@@LKaramazov you doesn't understand what kind of genius putin is

[@LKaramazov]

@@bornatona3954 it seems you may be right.

[@bornatona3954]

@@LKaramazov whole world witnessing RasPutin destiny

[@alideq2886]

Thank yu

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

You’re welcome 😊

[@wber3530]

Wow your predictions instantly become true, there rumors in telegram about the deal already

[@LKaramazov]

“ NEVER “ give succor to Nazis!

[@gerrycoogan6544]

@vladimirbrovkin4052 Dr. Brovkin, I am a recent new subscriber and I am now listening to all the videos on your playlist, "Issues of Contemporary Politics". Here am I, having just finished number 16 of the 37 in the current list. I just want to take a moment to express how much I am enjoying these contemporary analyses of the known facts as they were at the time of the original postings. On this day, my 63rd birthday, I just wish I had had access to this kind of intellectual stimulation fifty years ago. I think I might well have been inspired to follow a very different career path and studied history and geopolitics as a potential career path! And now, video #17 awaits my attention...

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

what do you do now? Thank you for your kind words. It is for words like yours that makes the joy of working

[@gerrycoogan6544]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 I'm a musician. I play piano and sing.

[@gerrycoogan6544]

​@vladimirbrovkin4052 I do apologise for not replying to your question before. I thought I already had. I am a musician. I mostly play piano in various genres; jazz, pop/rock, reggae, traditional Scottish and Irish music, etc. (I also sing.)

[@cromptonenator]

Thank you for this video, Dr Brovkin. At the time of the coup, I had wondered if Prigozhin's failed coup has closer parallels to the Kornilov Affair of 1917, or the Razin / Pugachev Rebellions of old Russia. What is your opinion?

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Kornilov demarche was an attempt to stop the wave of anarchy amid the collapse of state authority. Prigozhin's march was an attempt to force Putin to fire Shoigu. No similarity

[@josephjohnson9805]

Very well stated with much to think about. Tell me a little about yourself where you live, teach etc...

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

I am retired and I live in France, and I used to teach Soviet History at Harvard University. I am Russian by ethnicity, American in citizenship, Orthodox in religion, I am straight and I love my wife and I detest woke pseudo culture.

[@josephjohnson9805]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 It is a honor to talk to you... I am from Chicago...

[@josephjohnson9805]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 I take that to mean that you do not like left leaning people who do not listen to the view points of others and attempt to suppress free speech... and that you dislike people who make decisions based on personal bias without investigating a topic or decision...

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

@@josephjohnson9805 I have nothing against left-leaning or right-leaning people. I like open debate and I do not like when someone tries to monopolize an ability to express views. In other words, I like liberty, freedom of thought, and speech, which also is not present in the contemporary USA

[@bornatona3954]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 do you listen what you talking

[@LKaramazov]

What about the winter of 1941, weren’t THOSE conditions poor enough for the people to rebel? Hadnt the people been waiting for a chance to overthrow Stalin, or were they too terrified?

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

No, the people never thought of rebelling against Stalin. Everyone was so afraid to just think that let alone act on it. Besides there was a cult of Stalin.

[@LKaramazov]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 I remember reading about the cult. When the people were about to be executed, they blamed the security services and often thought “ if only Stalin knew” WOW!

[@gagago302]

This aged like uranium.

[@tigers3748]

Does uranium age similarly to milk?

[@gagago302]

@@tigers3748 Google “uranium half life”.

[@LKaramazov]

Did Stalin fear this from Zhukov or Chuikov?

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

No, he shot all the generals in 1937 and those that remained learnt their lesson.

[@LKaramazov]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 yes! That’s I always though his diabolical genius was somewhat necessary in preparing Russia for the inevitable attack from Germany. Putin knows that in war fear is a part of ruling in the East. There’s something fishy about all of this. Even Yagoda and Yezhov weren’t safe, even his most loyal men were all destroyed!

[@kalyanikumari3893]

Prigozin became a traitor, he must be punished . We want strong Russia 🇷🇺 .......from India ❤

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

He is not a traitor, he is just overambitious fighter. he got used to winning and he fancies that he was better than anyone else.

[@kzeniapoznyak8075]

Do you think that other riots involving the Wagner group could happen? The people were supportive when the mercenaries badmouthed Russian military officials.

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

Yes it is possible, but the Western media forgets to mention that those who critisize the Ministry of Defense or even Putin himself do so from the position of what they call Angry patriots. They want to conduct the war better, harder and win compteley by taking Kiev. The Western medi loves anyone who criticizes Putinm forgetting that they are more nationalitic and hard-line than Putin.

[@ramrod9556]

It will be interesting to find out in the next few weeks how much support Prigozhin had from his own staff. What was all the cash at Wagner HQ for? How many soldiers were actually involved and how many truly knew what was going down? I would not be surprised to see Prigozhin returned to Russia for "breaking" some rule of his exile agreement. This whole circus show has greatly harmed Wagner's legacy.

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

You are right. He may decide to come. Only this time he will be watched closely. I doubt Putin will allow any independent armed groups any more.

[@krikorklenjian9696]

Kornilov mate not lenin

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

No, Kornilov tried to save the disintegrating army, Today Russian army is in the best shape it has ever been.

[@josephjohnson9805]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 Uh Don't you think the WW2 army in 1945 was better? It took a lot of punishment?

[@user-fc9se1mn6k]

Didn't Putin read Machiavelli's lessons?

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

I hope he did

[@tigers3748]

Every politician alive read Machiavelli. That is the problem.

[@bowrudder899]

I don't understand your thesis. Prigozhin marches on Moscow, gets exiled to Belarus, and somehow it's a Ukrainian plot? In my opinion this video would have profited from just waiting a couple hours until the dust settled. I get the impression that we are being played, but don't buy your interpretation.

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

I do not suggest that Prigozhin is working for Ukraine. But what he does is profitable for Ukraine. Moreover, chaos in Moscow is the desired goal of the Kiev regime and their London advisers. Whether Prigozhin realized it or not a military rebellion in Moscow is to the benefir of Ukraine and NATO.

[@tigers3748]

What makes you think he is so stupid as to not realize something that is obvious to literally everyone else on the planet? I don't buy your analysis at all that he made any mistake in his calculations to the fact that no one there wants a civil war. A better theory I think is he was counting on exactly what happened to come about. It'd be real hard to scapegoat him now.

[@GitanaRusa2012]

@@tigers3748still not buying Brovkin’s analysis?

[@bornatona3954]

O almost forgot...hows going blitzkrig and anschlus

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

It is going just fine. When do you think the Russians are going to be in Lvov? Will they continue to Warsau?

[@bornatona3954]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 how long until putler flying out of window? It's really question.

[@bornatona3954]

Its not 1917 but 2023 ...young ppl with internet doesn't go to war for putler lunacy

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

can you explain what exactly you mean by Putin lunacy?

[@bornatona3954]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 acctualy its russian lunacy.. obsession with your fabricated history (mythology ). Kyiv rus has absolutely nothing with nowadays Russia even Tolstoj clearly distinguish Russians from slavs... It's all 19-20 century fabric

[@bornatona3954]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 doesn't matter ..putin is father of modern Ukraine

[@bornatona3954]

Russia will lose soon very very badly ...badly

[@vladimirbrovkin4052]

I amnot a military specialist, but I think you project your wishful thinking onto reality. Russia is not going to lose. That is for sure. As to winning and how much I advise you to watch colonel McGregor and not CNN.

[@antonioribeiro2818]

they've been saying that for twenty years

[@bornatona3954]

@@vladimirbrovkin4052 enjoy your agony Ukraine will be EU and NATO Denying someone right to exist is definition of genocide. We Croats in early 90 successful managed with primitives from east with no support..USA put weapon embargo on us. Still we won... Ukrajina with all that support can only win against same primitive