Russian Rulers History Podcast
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Russian Rulers History Podcast
First we follow the Russian rulers from Rurik to Putin. From there, we will cover all aspects of Russian and Soviet history as well as the histories of all of the countries that were part of the USSR and the Russian Empire. Hopefully, the podcast can help you understand the policies of Vladimir Puti...
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Astrakhan, Kazan, and Crimea: A History
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Today, we discuss the histories of the remnants of the Golden Horde and the Mongol Invasion, the khanates of Astrakhan, Kazan, an...
The Soviet Space Program - Part Two
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Today, we wrap up the series on the Soviet Space Program with some fantastic successes, and disastrous failures.
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Brief Update on the Podcast
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Just wanted to share the plans I have for the podcast, which will continue for at least another year.
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The Soviet Space Program - Part One
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Today, we begin our two-part series covering the Soviet Space Program from its early days in the 1930s up to the launch of the th...
The Battle of Kursk
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Today, we cover the largest tank battle in human history, the Battle of Kursk, whose outcome still reverberates to this day.
Konstantin Stanislavski - The Father of Method Acting
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Today, we cover one of the pioneers of modern acting, Konstantin Stanislavski, the man whose "system" would be known as method ac...
Operation Barbarossa - Part Two
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Today, we wrap up the series on the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
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Operation Barbarossa - Part One
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Today, we cover the preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in 1942. This is a two-part series that wil...
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders - The Horse and the Rise of Empires - An Interview with author David Chaffetz
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Today, I am sharing an interview with author David Chaffetz to talk about his book Raiders, Rulers, and Traders. We will talk abo...
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Today, we cover the non-aggression treaty between the USSR and Nazi Germany signed in 1939, that shocked the world. It also was t...
Russian Expansion Under Ivan the Great
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During Ivan III's reign, the Principality of Muscovy grew to become what we now know as the Russian Empire.
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Soviet Scientists
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Today, we cover those scientists who served during the time of the Soviet Union.
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Russian Scientists
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Today, we cover the fascinating lives and accomplishments of 13 Russian scientists
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Russian Colonialism and Imperialism
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Despite Russia claiming that their country never played the colonialism and imperialism game that the west played, they are not t...
Raskol - The Schism within the Russian Orthodox Church
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Today, we cover the only major schism in Russian Orthodox history, known as the Raskol. Occurring in the mid-17th century, the re...
In the Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites - Part Two
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Today, we wrap up the series on the final Moscow Show Trial in which 21 men would lose their lives in a trial short on reality an...
In the Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites - Part One
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Today, we cover the third Moscow Show Trial based on the actual transcript, translated into English.
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The History of Kyiv
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Today, we finish our three part series on some of the most important cities of Russia with the history of the capital of Ukraine,...
The History of St. Petersburg
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Today, we cover the history of Russia's one-time capital, St. Petersburg. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, it became Russia's...
The History of Moscow
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Today's episode takes us on a journey through the history of Russia's capital, Moscow.
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The Patriarchs and Metropolitans of the Russian Orthodox Church - Part Two
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Today, we wrap up the series on the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Patriarchs and the Metropolitans of the Russian Orthodox Church - Part One
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Today, we begin a two-part series of the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, beginning in the early 14th century.
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The History of the Cossacks - Part Three
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Today, we wrap up our history of the Cossacks, flowing them from the time of Catherine the Great, the Napoleonic Invasion, and th...
The History of the Cossacks - Part Two
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Today, we continue on our journey into the history of the Cossacks, focusing mostly on those from the Don River basin.
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The History of the Cossacks - Part One
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Today, we start a new, 3-part series on the history of the Cossacks. The legendary bands of free men, helped influence the Russia...
Sergei Witte
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Sergei Witte was the first Prime Minister of Russia that wasn't the Tsar. Try as he could, he was unable to convince Nicholas II...
The Great Purge - Part Three
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Today, we wrap up the tragic story of the Great Purge which costs millions of lives and adversely affected Russians to this day.<...
The Great Purge - Part Two
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Today, we cover those unfortunate individuals who were caught up in the Purge despite having nothing to do with the charges put u...
The Great Purge - Part One
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Today, we begin a three-part series on the Great Purge of 1937-1939, where over one million people lost their lives.
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An Interview with Professor Marlene Laruelle
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Today's episode with Professor Laruelle will cover a number of topics including an overview of Russian history and the ebb and fl...
The Battle of Borodino
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Today, we cover the story of the Battle of Borodino, the battle that would turn the tide against the French and Napoleon. It was...
A Life Under Russian Serfdom
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Today, we cover the miserable conditions that Russian serfs lived in. In particular, we will share quotes from the memoirs of one...
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova - Part Three
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Today, we wrap up the series of this remarkable woman. From meeting Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Denis Diderot, Dashkova woul...
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova - Part Two
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Today, we continue the story of this remarkable person. Dashkova, as she writes in her memoirs, believed herself to be in the mid...
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova - Part One
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Today, we begin the series into one of the most fascinating women in world and Russian history, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Voro...
Lenin - Who Was He Really?
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Who was Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin? How did he become the man who would help overthrow the Romanovs and begin the Bolshevik control o...
The Great Game - Part Three
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Today, we wrap up the Great Game of tensions between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia.
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The Great Game - Part Two
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Today, we talk about the quagmire that the British stepped into when they invaded Afghanistan to begin the First Anglo-Afghan War...
The Great Game - Part One
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Today, we begin a new series on the Great Game (also known as Bolshaya Igra), a jockeying of position between the two great empir...
An Interview with Professor Simon Miles - Author of Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War
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Today's special episode is an interview with Professor Simon Miles, Author of Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and t...