The Great War
Published on 10 Mar 2018Chair of Wisdom time!
March 11, 2018
Savage Division – Displaced People – Sexual Relations I OUT OF THE TRENCHES
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Soviet Leaders in 7 Minutes (History)
Austin Olney
Published on 19 Apr 2016Learn about the leaders of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin
1917-1922
Joseph Stalin
1922- 1953
Georgy Malenkov
1953-1955
Nikita Khrushchev
1953 – 1964
Leonid Brezhnev
1964 – 1982
Yuri Andropov
1982 – 1984
Konstantin Chernenko
1984 – 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev
1985 – 1991Music – Goldeneye 64 Menu
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March 9, 2018
Peace In The East – The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk I THE GREAT WAR Week 189
The Great War
Published on 8 Mar 2018Germany and the Russian Bolshevik Government sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending hostilities on the Eastern Front. Previously Germany had resumed the war in the East to put pressure on the Bolsheviks to accept the dictated terms. The Western Front Caucasian theatre were far from peaceful though.
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March 6, 2018
Lenin & Trotsky – Their Rise To Power I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
The Great War
Published on 5 Mar 2018Felshtinsky, Yuri: Lenin, Trotsky, Germany and the Treaty of Brest-Ltivosk. The Collapse of the World Revolution. November 1917- November 1918, Milford 2012: http://amzn.to/2oILHmK
Swain, Geoffrey: Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. New York 2014: http://amzn.to/2CY0gqF
Swain, Geoffrey: Trotsky. Edinburgh 2006: http://amzn.to/2FoRnfb
Wolkogonow, Dimitri: Lenin. Utopie und Terror. Berlin 2017
Vladimir “Lenin” Ilyich Ulyanov and Leon Trotsky are two of the most well known communists today. But how did they meet and how did they rose to the top of the Bolshevik movement? And how did they manage to overthrow the Russian Empire? We take a look at their lives and their early days until the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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March 4, 2018
From Caporetto to Cambrai I THE GREAT WAR Summary Part 12
The Great War
Published on 3 Mar 2018The popular narrative of World War 1 usually ignores the constant evolution of warfare and the end of 1917 was definitely a short time period where a lot of changes came together, the 2nd Russian Revolution, the Battle of Cambrai and the Battle of Caporetto all illustrated that 1918 would be a rather different year in World War 1.
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March 3, 2018
Cuban Missile Crisis – Black Saturday – Extra History – #3
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Published on 1 Mar 2018*Sponsored by DomiNations: https://smarturl.it/CubanMissile1
With simultaneous nuclear tests by both the US and Russia, and tense miscommunications among troops on the ground, in the air, and on the water, the doomsday clock ticked to 11:59 PM for one fateful day.
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March 2, 2018
Ludendorff’s Window Of Opportunity I THE GREAT WAR Week 188
The Great War
Published on 1 Mar 2018German victory in the East, chaos in the British High Command, stable fronts in the Balkans and Italy, the US still not in full strength; German General Erich Ludendorff has a window of opportunity for his spring offensive and he intends to use it. Within the next weeks the German Army will launch their biggest offensive of WW1: Operation Michael.
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February 27, 2018
The Czechoslovak Legion’s Odyssey Through Russia I THE GREAT WAR Special
The Great War
Published on 26 Feb 2018The Czechoslovak Legion wanted to return home or continue the fight for independence even when peace on the Eastern Front was declared. But they needed to cross the whole of Civil War torn Russia for this.
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February 25, 2018
Feature History – Russo-Japanese War
Feature History
Published on 28 May 2017Hello and welcome to Feature History, featuring a Russian and Japanese disagreement, and why you don’t record when sick.
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February 23, 2018
Cuban Missile Crisis – Eyeball to Eyeball – Extra History – #2
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Published on 22 Feb 2018Sponsored by DomiNations: https://smarturl.it/CubanMissile1
After President Kennedy’s television address, tensions are rising. Fidel Castro is getting annoyed at the US and Soviet Union alike, and everyone else has their own ideas on what retaliation looks like.
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Operation Faustschlag – Germany Advances In The East Again I THE GREAT WAR Week 187
The Great War
Published on 22 Feb 2018Germany has had enough with the stalling tactics by the Bolsheviks and is unleashing its military might on the Eastern Front again to show who is in charge. Within the first days of Operation Faustschlag, the German Army marches on Kiev and the Baltic region. At the same time, the plans for a German spring offensive in the West are getting more pronounced.
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February 20, 2018
Russian Rifles of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special feat. C&Rsenal
The Great War
Published on 19 Feb 2018Othais’ video about the Winchester Contract Rifle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grSRn5wnHI
Indy and Othais from C&Rsenal talk about Russian Rifles during World War 1.
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February 17, 2018
Cuban Missile Crisis – I: The Failed Checkmate – Extra History
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Published on 15 Feb 2018An eye for an eye, a missile for a missile — that’s how the saying goes, right? So thought the Soviet Union and the United States in the early fall of 1962, kicking off a 13-day staring contest that scared the world.
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February 16, 2018
No War, No Peace – Trotsky’s Gamble I THE GREAT WAR Week 186
The Great War
Published on 15 Feb 2018The negotiations between the Bolsheviks, the German High Command and Austria-Hungary reach a new low this week 100 years ago. Leon Trotsky is playing for time since the revolutions in Berlin and Vienna are only a matter of time in his opinion. At the same time, the Ukrainians are try to get German aid against the Bolsheviks against Ukrainian grain for the starving German population.
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February 14, 2018
Russian Pistols of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special feat. C&Rsenal
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Published on 13 Feb 2018Watch C&Rsenal: http://youtube.com/candrsenal
Indy talks to our weapons expert Othais about the Russian Pistols of World War 1.
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