Post-Soviet Russia: From Gangster Capitalism to Bonapartism (Documentary)

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A short documentary on why Russia is the way it is. The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes. In this 1Dime video, we go over the history of post-Soviet Russia, the root causes of Vladimir Putin, and how the current Russian regime became the way it is.
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0:00 Intro
3:24 Boris Yeltsin vs Putin
10:49 Managed Democracy or Dictatorship?
15:14 Yeltsin and The Dissolution of the USSR
21:33 The Ghost of the Soviet Union
24:55 Bonapartism: Dictatorship over Capital
32:50 Ideology and Rhetoric
Credits:
Written, Narrated, and Directed by 1Dime
Edited by Biodegradable
Thumbnail by Stafoh
Music by Christian Andersen / The Taste of Fear, The Glove Doesn't Fit / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
Sources and Books that Inspired this video:
-Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood
-Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia by Ilya Budraitskis
-Change in Putin's Russia: Power, Money and People by Simon Pirani
-Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism by Anthony Arnove
-The Conundrum of Russian Capitalism: The Post-Soviet Economy in the World System by Ruslan Dzarasov
-Russia Under Yeltsin And Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy by Boris Kagarlitsky
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@1Dimee Год назад

This video took an insane amount of work and research to make, so if you want to help keep independent content like this going please consider supporting my work on Patreon:: www.patreon.com/OneDime Depending on the tiers, Patrons get access to my discord server, exclusive podcasts, and credits on the screen at the end of videos. Also hit the Notification Bell to get notified when I upload videos! Part 2 will be coming out next. Books that Inspired this video: -Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood -Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia by Ilya Budraitskis -Change in Putin's Russia: Power, Money and People by Simon Pirani -Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism by Anthony Arnove -The Conundrum of Russian Capitalism: The Post-Soviet Economy in the World System by Ruslan Dzarasov -Russia Under Yeltsin And Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy by Boris Kagarlitsky

@Jp-sp3eg Год назад

Bro you are doing really good work.

@DomenicoMigliorini Год назад

Sorry I am unemployed :(

@DelandaBaudLacanian Год назад

thanks for all your topical content and these citations, looking forward to part 2!

@thisisnotagag9017 Год назад

@YourCapyBro_windows95_3DPipes Год назад

I'll give you at least 2 dimes for your noble efforts.

@YUGOPNIK Год назад

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic work.

@1Dimee Год назад

Thanks broski!

@VegitoBlue202 Год назад

Yooo Yugopnik, Ultra Vegito likes your work!

@noone-os5pj 7 месяцев назад

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic comment.

@zainmudassir2964 5 месяцев назад

You too

@_starstuff Год назад

I grew up in Russia and studied sociology at a Russian university and OMG this video is SO GOOD. Not only did you use some awesome sources for research, you dug into Russian modern history in its insane complexity masterfully. As someone who has lived through a lot of it first hand, I am thoroughly impressed and can't wait for the next chapter. In the meantime I'll definitely share this video with my American friends. Thank you ❤️

@1Dimee Год назад

Thank you ❤️

@MrNoobomnenie Год назад

18:00 My grandad was in Moscow during this event, and he told me this: the only reason Yeltsin got away with dissolving the parliament and then bombing it is because this hapenned so fast, most of the Russian people haven't even knew about it untill it was over. In fact, a day before the bombing there was an armed attempt by the parliament's communists to hijack a TV station and make a public broadcast to rally around the people to support them, but it was stopped by the Yeltsin's forces. My grandad was doing lectures in one of the Moscow's universities, and there were several communists among his students who were eager to go and assist the hijackers the moment they learned about it, but were stopped by their friends who were afraid this will get them killed. As my grandad said: "If social media existed back then, there would have been a civil war in 1993".

@TrueDefectv Год назад

I remember first learning about that events when I was just a kid. Neither liberal (oppositional) or conservative media really brought them up back then (and they don’t do it now). But I found a lot of footage online… That videos gave me strong 1930’ Germany vibes and were basically the first step for me becoming a communist sympathiser

@YourCapyBro_windows95_3DPipes Год назад

Im shocked the military participated Like really??? Tf?? All they all Nazis are what???? I thought the Russian forces were based.... Not all I guess After this happened what happened to the communist parliament members????? What happened to the government the day after?

@qtkxtsh2074 Год назад

I live in Russia and want to say thank you for this video. I might make russian subtitles if I'll have the time. The saddest thing for me is that Putin does have some genuine support in people: while some are made to vote and participate in pro-goverment "meetings" by their workplace, some are thinking of Putin as bringer of stability. 90s were really bad here and people think Putin saved them, when in reality, just as this video tells, the 90s crisis happened because of Yeltsin's and now Putin's regime. Edit: grammar

@1Dimee Год назад

That would be awesome! I can compensate you for it if you want. Just email me or DM me on Twitter.

@nightslasher9384 Год назад

How are you able to comment on RU-vid? Won't you get any trouble?! D:

@qtkxtsh2074 Год назад

@@nightslasher9384 lol RU-vid isn't blocked yet, twitter and instagram are, but you can acess them with vpn. I heard abou people getting in trouble because of posting in facebook or our analogue Vkontakte, but nothing because of youtube

@TrueDefectv Год назад

На фоне последних событий остаётся только пожелать друг другу удачи. Берегите себя ✌️

@TrueDefectv Год назад

@@nightslasher9384 We actually don’t have any big troubles connecting to Western webpages. Russia now has a lot more common with the 1960s US than with classical fascist dictatorships (it’s mentioned in the video, btw). Tbh, that makes no big difference and does not make the situation any brighter for me as a socialist 😢

@geraldgreen6794 Год назад

Back when I was in college I took Russian for my foreign language, this was during the 2016 election and my Russian teacher (who was actually from Russia btw) didn't really understand elections but told our class "I don't know why you guys think you can change any of that anyway". At the time her pessimism struck me as strange but as I got older and learned more about Russia, the Soviet Union, and the ACTUAL system of the USA I get it now.

@seanpol9863 Год назад

Two books that have been recommended recently, Arnold August's Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion and Molotov Remembers by Feliks Ivanovich Chuev. Chuev's book shines a light on the democratic process within the Soviet Union.

@themarxistproject Год назад

Excellent essay and impeccable editing! Thank you for making this!

@1Dimee Год назад

Everyone should go check out your "How Freedom Came to Russia" video for further learning on this subject!

@r3fus32d13 Год назад

What a breath of fresh air in this absolutely degenerate social media era we are in. I sometimes think that I'm crazy to be the only one searching for authenticity and humility, creators like you keep people like me sane. Thank you

@1Dimee Год назад

Really appreciate this comment! Yeah youtube has not been promoting videos like this. I rely entirely on Patreon supporters

@delahk92 Год назад

How can this video only have 11k views. Should've at least 11 million views. Very high quality take on the modern history of Russia. Factual, interesting, good production and engaging to watch! Keep this up 1Dime!

@1Dimee Год назад

Demonetization. Blame the algo. You can support on Patreon if you want to help keep this content going (:

@the_embarrassed_lemon5967 Год назад

This has got to be one of the most refreshing takes on Russia and Putin I have seen. I love your videos they are so high quality its a shame you have so few subs you deserve loads more.

@priscilapaez3304 Год назад

Very good job on this vid. Especially the Yeltsin and dissolution of the USSR chapter. I’ve done my fair share of research on Soviet and Post-Soviet history and your take about the 90s, Gorby, and who the real culprit of what Russia is today was refreshing. Excited for part two.

@UwUSanime 7 месяцев назад

THIS VIDEO needs to be broadcast 24/7 on all channels in the usa! russians arent stupid nor are they war mongers,m ofcourse this doesnt detract from the unjustified invasion, but even still...

@cmccoy793 3 месяца назад

This channel needs as much attention as possible. Really appreciated this breakdown and analysis

@wirelessbaguette8997 Год назад

I watched every single one of your videos a few months ago, but over the last few months, not a single one of your video has been recommended to me. I'm glad that I came back to check manually, cause I've missed like 7 videos or something.

@1Dimee Год назад

Did you hit the notification bell?

@eldizo_ Год назад

Amazing work and it's only a part of an entire mini-series!

@LogicGated Год назад

Can't wait for the next vid, this one felt jam packed with info!

@Tren.hegellian Год назад

This channel is going to be huge soon, this is some of the highest quality political essay content I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. Keep it up!

@VantaBay Год назад

sadly I do not think it will be too easy, as youtube's "algorithm" has a knack for ranking socialist content lower

@tylerrice7145 Год назад

Always shocked this channel doesn’t have more subscribers even compared with other socialist content creators. Top notch content

@newagain9964 Год назад

@@tylerrice7145 you’re “shocked”? U clearly do know why most are on SM. And u prob aren’t aware that most ppl are Idiots?

@RNAxRibose Месяц назад

I discovered you yesterday. This is really good please keep doing more like this!

@rare_goth_metal_and_shoegaze Год назад

Excellent historical context here! So glad I rediscovered your channel! You're very underrated! Please keep going!

@childintime6453 Год назад

great work. looking forward to the next video

@hyperrealhank Год назад

Finally someone goes beyond the binary thinking of “bad boyfriend Putin” or “Putin crazy”

@anthonyr.1568 Год назад

That's some quality work, man. Keep it up and I'm looking forward to the next episode.

@superKOEImania Год назад

Great analysis and i also loved the aesthetic aspect of the intro

@brokkoliomg6103 Год назад

This video was another banger! Honestly, the way you bring stuff to the point in an understandable way is amazing, I wish I could do that sometime. Especially the part on the transition and Yeltsin's dissolution and bombing of the parliament blew my mind, as I wasn't aware of that. It shines a whole new light on that time for me. Btw when I first discovered you I had to watch a bunch of stuff from you. And I really can't watch more than two videos a day from you bc it's so loaded and induced with great educational content and presentation. + I really have to concentrate on your videos otherwise I can't process it. It's great tho, I like how you go into depth but also explain things understandably. I'm always excited for the next videos. (I'm also on your Discord, so you've definitely got yourself some supporters with that great content.)

@1Dimee Год назад

Thank you! Feedback like this makes my day. I really put my all into these videos and it’s great to see that people like yourself are enjoying them and getting a lot out of them (:

@MoneylessSociety Год назад

Feeding the algorythm with some glowing appreciation for a great mind and brilliant creator continuing to explicate highly relevant, sound information of the highest quality. Keep it up! 🔥

@alextgreat3930 Год назад

Fantastic video! Your videos are all amazing!

@user-rb7rx9cs6y Год назад

I loved this, whoever chooses the music for these videos- thank you, you have a talent.

@1Dimee Год назад

I always like to choose good music that marches the artistic vibe of the video

@foxcks Год назад

Can’t wait for part 2

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 6 месяцев назад

As an eastern European, it's a huge breath of fresh air

@beleata74 Год назад

Recently ( about 3 or so months ) I became a supporter of socialism. This video and a lot of your older stuff oddly put a lot of stuff together. Thanks for the amazing videos.

@LaSanya2001 Год назад

Great Video. Contributing to the Imitation Democracy observation, I myself previously have observed that the modern russian state and intellegentsia in certain ways try to mirror the west and the US, and argue on common arguments and points. Most recently for example, allegations of Ukraine developing their own bio-/nuclear weapon programme ala Iraq situation, invading x country for "freeing" people from oppression, and much more political, economical destabilization and meddling than in soviet times. I wish I could be more specific, but I have not taken note of my observations, and I'm def just talking out of memory here. One thing concerning soviet nostalgia in modern day russia, it very quickly becomes obvious from watching soviet documentaries produced in russia, as well as museums and memorials, that the russian state weaponizes soviet nostalgia only in specific ways, especially praising it's military, cultural and world power prowess, more than it's other successes in politics, economics, theory etc. Often they will and can mention the atrocities commited by the soviet government or the terrible inefficiency and oppresion of communism they were under, but that they were still so powerful and glorious because the russian nation was still under it and holding it together or something along those lines. Previous chants of success thanks to the hard work, suffering, unity and working together of all the soviet people became chants of success thanks to the russian people keeping the system alive.

@user-zb9en4wf9y 6 месяцев назад

No one really keeps track of the many dozens of millions that have died as a direct result of imperialism. War, disease & famine in the Americas alone, forgetting Asia & Africa... For half a millennium. Considering the deaths in relationship to the global population at the time(s) Would make stalin & mao look mild. It's all about me me me & mine at any cost.

@filipdevillard720 Год назад

Very good and very well researched video! I can't wait for the next part

@abhisheksanthosh4581 2 месяца назад

This is an epic piece of documentary work ! Good job..you earned a sub from me 😍

@laralebeu36 Год назад

Just from the intro I get the feeling that this is a good documentary. I'm very fond of this kind of analysis... where there is a focus not on the politicians but on the system that gave rise to the politicians.

@1Dimee Год назад

Indeed. That becomes clearer throughout the video

@TrueDefectv Год назад

As a Russian, I’m so exited by the quality of analysis in your material. Can’t wait for the USA video :)

@ArtinSalimi Год назад

Finally got to watch this - insanely well-researched video, my dude. Mad props for this one.

@1Dimee Год назад

Thank you my bro

@ArtinSalimi Год назад

@@1Dimee Yes, all working now :)

@uncomplicatedi 9 месяцев назад

So many good points. I can't stop commenting. Love your vids btw

@Ebrahim_17 Год назад

Great video! Commenting to help the algorithm!

@Afriboy10 Год назад

Good video. In fact damn near-perfect. I'm glad someone actually talked about the farce that was the 1996 Russian presidential election, I've literally not seen a video on post-Soviet Russia even mentioning this, despite blatant US intervention. Incidentally, for all the faults with Western media, I do recall Channel 4 (I'm from the UK) talk about the shelling of Parliament the day Yeltsin died (It mostly was clips of him being drunk and I couldn't blame them since that was the material they got). Look forward to part 2. I expect to see clips of Clinton (and Bush for that matter) and Blair being all chummy with Putin!

@1Dimee Год назад

Thank you! God you enjoyed it. The New York Times actually put out a piece a while ago admitting that the US basically manipulated the election in favour of Yeltsin. You can find it online.

@Afriboy10 Год назад

@@1Dimee I've probably seen it already. It's not the only one - during the "Russiagate" scandal, I think it was a piece at the Atlantic that pointed out that the US is the business of election meddling and used Yeltsin's election as an example. I think the Time cover all but states that's what the US did anyway, and of course, presents it as unambiguously good.

@michaszkot4419 Год назад

7:34 "Excessive alcoholism" As if there's an accepted level of alcoholism (*coughs* Yugopnik *coughs*)...

@user-ym2ne1zg1b Год назад

This is one of the best videos about Russia on English-speaking RU-vid (along with Hakim's brief economic analysis of modern Russia). Also, I really liked that you used Boris Kagarlistky's book as one of the sources for this video. The man introduced me to the world-system theory and Wallerstein. Also, Boris Kagarlitsky's book "A peripheral empire" is still relevant to understand more about Russia from the world-system theory framework (I am not sure that it was translated into English, tho).

@brokkoliomg6103 Год назад

What is the world system theory? Are there presentations or anything on YT about that?

@TrueDefectv Год назад

@@brokkoliomg6103 You basically imagine whole world as 1 cell of capitalist society, where “central” states are capitalists and “peripheral” ones are proletarians. It’s profitable for central states to maintain other states on the low technological level, so they (peripheral states) can produce only raw materials or goods with low added value and basically make no money in comparison to, for ex, European countries or the US, Japan, South Korea etc. Don’t know about any online-presentations. But Wallerstein books must be quite common in English

@PC42190 Год назад

Best book by Boris Kagarlistky? Now that you mention him as a good theorist of world-system theory, I want to read him

@TrueDefectv Год назад

@@PC42190 Kagarlistky even has his own YT channel, but I'm afraid non of his videos have english subs :(

@gliscameria Год назад

Nice work. I've held on of watching this video because I could not digest more misinformed russiaphobia. This was well balanced and fact driven, which shouldn't make it an outlier, but it is.

@BrightAgeBeyond Год назад

Excellent video, looking forward to the next one.

@EleumNoice 2 месяца назад

Really fantastic video! Watched all 3 Russia videos and subscribed immediately! Could maybe someone tell me what the song from the intro is?

@silkisnothere Год назад

Commenting for the algorithm, great video!

@sebastianpeady5850 Год назад

This video deserves more attention.

@justpat1334 Год назад

I'm glad you did this. One of the best videos I've seen in this high quality channel. Thank you.

@nicswie Год назад

Thank you so much for your work. Highly appreciated. Hopefully your cause gets more attention, would be really deserved.

@ma228 Год назад

Great work. Bravo! Can you( or somebody else ) make a video on "How this war will end?!" There are only very few scenarios... Thank you!

@lowkoalatee4033 Год назад

Let’s go love it vid was great

@rosevisionmacs 7 месяцев назад

@29:25 🎵"We'd like to thank you Milton Freidman for really showing us the way"🎶 - The modern Herbert Hoover

@flippydaflip5310 Год назад

"Managed democracy" sounds pretty similar to what we had here in Apartheid-South Africa, too. To be honest, it's still the same system - the edges just appear a lot fuzzier than it used to be.

@TheArtist808 Год назад

Man that bush clip gets better every time

@krask5331 Год назад

good one!

@TheMichuo Год назад

I have many things to say about the video, but I don't know how to put them into words properly, so I'll just comment this for the algorithm, also give my thanks to biodegradable next time you talk with him! I appreciate both of you

@blackmoon2128 9 месяцев назад

Indeed man, only leftists can trully talk about, explain and tell about russia's issues without devolving into orientalism, amazing how liberais simply can't resort to that one way or another.

@chronaursa1442 Год назад

Great video on Russia, 1Dime. For a future video, could you do an in-depth one on China? Or, are there in-depth videos that does this as well?

@1Dimee Год назад

One day yes. But I would need to do a lot more research and read a wide array of sources. As I did with this video. I would not want to be like Johnny Harris and just go with my opinion without doing extensive research beforehand.

@tomoliop 9 месяцев назад

A very good video!

@azmodanpc 6 месяцев назад

Loved the cultural revolution video you made.

@porky8461 Год назад

Yeltsin was a good loyal puppet.

@browk2512 Год назад

7:40 December 31 1999, not 1991

@axlgzrdmattick Год назад

Great Video!

@atashikokoni Год назад

I like it when political videos information at me properly. Thanks ^_^

@Solaire_au_Frohmage 3 месяца назад

I cannot express ny gratitude enough. The amount of videos where RF and Putin are mischaracterized in the most ridiculous ways made me think that westerners can never be taught to spend at least a dozen minutes on researching a subject before making ridiculous claims on top of pre-existing propagandised misconceptions. RF is pretty bad, but it is at worst on par with USA (which is, ofc, inhumane levels of "bad", but still), and it is mostly USA's own doing - they wanted to make a capitalist hellhole here, and they succeeded.

@austinpage9463 Год назад

Phenomenal content. Keep posting, content like this is all it took to turn me from a die hard supporter of capitalism to a socialist now.

@Black-Sun_Kaiser 10 месяцев назад

Sure is easy to make you give up on your beliefs. The answer is always in the middle my friend.

@_karla._ Год назад

Amazing video, but maaaan the font of the subtitles (8:50 etc.) is hurting my eyes.

@dg-ov4cf 4 месяца назад

why you gotta get me all nostalgic for fallout 3 like that

@Achrononmaster Год назад

@31:20 just a friendly tip 1Dime: maybe don't capitulate to neoliberalism yourself by stating the Dumas ran "very low deficits". It's bad language framing. To the monopoly issuer of the ruble a deficit/debt is a trivial concept, what really matters instead is full employment and price stability. The neolib/Dumas policy was "running very low currency refuelling/injections" (same as a low gov deficit, but better framing). No matter what the rate of change of prices, a growing population still needs a growing money supply in _real_ terms (unit purchasing power). If there is even a tiny +ve inflation rate + growing population, that implies the _nominal_ currency supply has to have a positive rate of increase, i.e., government net issues ruble, if real production is semi-stable.

@catsthemovie4692 Год назад

I can't wait for part 2 I knew something was missing from the discourse

@citizensmith4113 Год назад

You did a great job on this

@MohamedTarek-lz3hi Год назад

Finally a good video about russia and putin that i can send to my friends, great work 1 dime

@PalaeoJoe Год назад

Dude great video, but using the Russian Я (Ya) instead of R in the Word Russia is cringe as fuck

@davidharabagiu4969 Год назад

Thank you for making this video. It was needed.

@cavegirl3712 Год назад

Lol the Freudian slip by bush…. Oh boy

@esc5272 Год назад

Thanks a lot for this gem, 1dime :)

@TennesseeJed Год назад

👍 this is an amazing documentary! Thanks!!

@gehtdichnixan446 Год назад

You should have million subscribers comrade !!!

@americancommunist6076 Год назад

you should do more co-ops with second thought!

@lyudmilapavlichenko7551 Год назад

Great video. My heart goes out to the Russian people.

@Paradoxe44 Год назад

Amazing work However I’m not sure to understand the fundamental differences between Bonapartism and Fascism

@cosmonot Год назад

That's some first class quality analysis👌!!!

@francescomanconi4241 Год назад

Very informative !

@bominzhang6732 6 месяцев назад

It is Hegel's Weltgeist/Volksgeist/Zietgiest view of history vs. Great Man Theory of Thomas Carlyle. Does the Great Man make himself all on his own? Or does the social-economical-political environment, in combination with certain experiences and qualities, make a Great Man?