Russia Before the 1917 Revolution I THE GREAT WAR Special

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Russia's history in the decades leading up to World War 1 where a time of great turmoil and social changes. The Romanov tsars held a tight grip on the country which remained an autocracy even though the people requested change. And by 1917, three years into World War 1, the people demanded change again.
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@evolutionzFTW 7 лет назад

Does anyone else look at the dates of death on the people when they pop up to see if they witnessed WW2 ?

@Jack29245 7 лет назад

Yeah, I always do that and I pay more attention if they died in 1945 because it makes me wonder if they lived to see the end of the war.

@PetarJovanovic993 7 лет назад

Von Mackensen comes to mind.

@ZayanK 7 лет назад

evolutionzFTW omg yes, every time.

@mattgaston2976 7 лет назад

Vicky Illingworth doesn't matter either way tbh, by 1945 it was only going one way

@Jack29245 7 лет назад

Of course but more the point of David Lloyd George, for example, he died in 1945 and my point was did he live to see his nation emerge victorious from the second great war? Just looked it up and he didn't, of course the war was only going one way but I pay attention because I like to know if they saw the end and died knowing their people whatever side they were on could live in peace,

@MrAnonymousRandom 6 лет назад

The problem with Russia back then was its government refused to acknowledge how far behind they were and modernize. Japan on the other hand knew it didn't stand a chance against industrialized countries and worked overtime to catch up. The Russo Japanese war demonstrates how much of a difference modernization can make.

@LAFC. 6 месяцев назад

"Japan worked overtime to catch up". What a nice way of saying Japan was failing so they just decided to steal other countries resources and land LOL. Hail Capitalism.

@WookieSwagga 7 лет назад

The tsar should have used his extra admin points to stab up. Shame.

@SeinenNinja 7 лет назад

Ezzolino da Romano or get a Theologian advisor. Or not accept that call to arms that Serbia sent.

@Gh0stClown 7 лет назад

This would be Vicky 2 by this point and you can't do that.

@KitteridgeStudios 7 лет назад

And how would a 0/0/0 get these admin points?

@kryska1345 7 лет назад

P.S. Just demand it from the clergy :D

@chrismcbride3209 7 лет назад

JayCat maybe he doesn't have the DLC, Rasputin probably told him not to

@officerchad1213 7 лет назад

Last time I was this early, Rasputin was still alive

@silvioevan11 7 лет назад

Political correctness - Thank God it doesn't exist in this channel ;-)

@DaniTheDeer 7 лет назад

Preston Zhukov You should be leading the frontline, comrade, not watching videos.

@JarthenGreenmeadow 7 лет назад

Political correctness has no place in modern war.

@officerchad1213 7 лет назад

Joseph Stalin understood sir, I shall destroy Army group North

@bbcmotd 7 лет назад

sir? Boris, catch him, is american spy. Tovarisch Stalin! not sir

@thegreatgreenmenace4050 7 лет назад

I love you, Great War production team.

@GECKOZFTW 7 лет назад

The Great Green Menace Who doesn't?

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+The Great Green Menace we love you too

@Pikkabuu 7 лет назад

Hötzendorfs and Cadornas estates who don't like how the Great War team puts those two down so much?

@MrDucehands 7 лет назад

The Great War Any thoughts about doing an episode on the origins and adoption of the different insignias (like the one in thumbnail photo for this episode) for the participating nations? I find it very interesting.

@Johnny-Thunder 7 лет назад

I think I'm gonna miss this show when it eventually ends next year.

@alexanderpavlovichromanov3065 7 лет назад

The saddest moment. When the 304 years of Romanov rule, came to a bitter end. In the 24 years that I ruled Russia(1801-1825), I defeated Napoleon, defeated Turkey, ceded Poland and Finland, confirmed Russia as a major superpower of the world, but in the end... nothing was left, it was all... gone...... --Czar Alexander I

@immanuelsugar6209 5 лет назад

Shut up, you were a terrible emperor.

@marcnassif2822 5 лет назад

@@immanuelsugar6209 You were on the wrong side of history

@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 5 лет назад

@@immanuelsugar6209 He never even "Defeated" me. His generals and the physical field conditions did.

@immanuelsugar6209 5 лет назад

Napoleon Bonaparte l'Empreur de la Francois Exactly

@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 5 лет назад

@@immanuelsugar6209 In any case I'm still the best general of the time period

@Isildun9 7 лет назад

You know, his policies and lack of ability to rule aside, from my research, Nicholas II wasn't a bad guy at heart, he just wasn't the man that Russia, and the Imperial Dynasty, needed to at the time. He did ok, in peace time, but wartime was too much for a man like him. His flaws aside, and his wife's, they didn't deserve what happened to them in Yekaterinburg, and his children especially didn't. No one deserves that.

@kirillassasin 5 лет назад

He did, his family not.

@ShadowSumac 5 лет назад

He was an inept idiot. It might sound cruel, but he absolutely deserved everything that had happened to him. His family, obviously, did not. He was the man, who lead to collapse of the Russia and rise of the USSR.

@paungabriel9360 4 года назад

@@ShadowSumac Lenin actually wanted to keep the tsar as a political figurehead.

@tarasivashchuk1973 4 года назад

An unfortunate necessity caused by their families claim and exercise of divine rule. Leaving any of them alive would create potentially insurmountable legitimacy problems for the new Soviet leaders.

@Mourtzouphlos240 3 года назад

You do know he was a monstrous racist who sent other monstrously racist militias out to butcher his subjects right?

@KaiserMattTygore927 5 лет назад

"Modern war had become unprofitable" Never has a man been so wrong before...

@dejacavu6259 3 года назад

True, And Access to water for their ships was huge. They needed Constantinople, Hence fighting with the Turks over land.

@DASagent 2 года назад

The rest of the quote turned out correct.

@annacostello5181 2 года назад

Unfortunate

@wrednax8594 2 года назад

It's true today

@danielbat9887 7 лет назад

Well, so it begins. Buckle up boys, this story is 70 years long....

@StevenEveral 6 лет назад

* Grabs Xtra Large tub of popcorn * 🍿🍿🍿

@sss1029 3 года назад

70 + years of torture that goes on to this day

@vaziralramin4565 2 года назад

@@sss1029 as a Russian I agree

@olegvegan 2 года назад

The fact that we have actual footage of these people blows my mind

@tacticalpasta6691 7 лет назад

It's pretty ridiculus how hard the anarchists despised Alexander II and how badly they wanted to kill him. At one point, they even criticised Michael Bakunin (a famous anarchist activist) for being not radical enough. It's even more ridiculus when you see how much they hated and desired to kill Alexander II (7 assasination attempts), meanwhile Alexander III, the actual tyrant and despot, wasn't so "popular" among them (only ONE assasination attemp). They didn't want any reforms. They desired chaos.

@IncomitatusExcelsior 5 лет назад

They wanted to head off any co-option of socialist reform by the state. Basically, they didn't want the Tzar to pull a Bismark, which they knew was a real possibility because Bismark had done it in Germany and totally took the wind out of socialism's sails there.

@jangrosek4334 4 года назад

Alexander III began to destroy the anarcho revolutionary groups.

@treehugger3615 4 года назад

Russia can only be ruled with an iron fist.

@mazadancoseben4818 4 года назад

@@treehugger3615,it's a tragedy then. One dictator after another

@treehugger3615 4 года назад

@@mazadancoseben4818 Indeed...

@lordhamster9452 2 года назад

wow 2017? I remember watching this channel in my free time when I began to study history a while back. now that I need to grind for exams, this digestible rundown is super useful. fantastic!

@tylerwood9844 7 лет назад

Two questions, can you do an episode or an "out of the trenches" on the following questions: What was Siam's role in the war? How were the national currencies affected by the war, and why did so many countries get off the gold standard? Good job with the show.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Tyler Wood two questions that will be answered with special episodes

@FireAssayDevil 7 лет назад

80% of all foreign investment coming into Russia was from France (Niall Ferguson's "The Pity of War: not my favourite author or book, but still an interesting fact). This was funding the prewar economic boom to a fair extent I estimate.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

Interesting fact indeed.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

Probably that as much as any formal treaty explained the alignment with the Entente. Also why France (and Britain) wanted to keep Russia in the war even after the October Revolution.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

French, British and to a lesser extent US investors had sunk a lot of money in the Tsarist Empire (one town in Ukraine, Yuzovka, was even founded and named after a British investor called Hughes - it was later renamed). The October Revolution spelled goodbye to the investment, and Western support for the Whites and a lot of subsequent history had less to do with "freedom" and more to do with investors wanting their money back.

@rohiths3554 2 года назад

Figures the alliance

@DrewTidwell 7 лет назад

I love what you all do, and I have to say, this is one of your best episodes yet.

@dandhan87 7 лет назад

Had Tsar Alexander II survived, Russia may had been transitioned into a constitutional monarchy

@dandhan87 7 лет назад

spacecadet28 I am talking about Nicolas's grandfather

@Gew219 7 лет назад

dandhan87 One of the greatest irony of the history is that he was murdered by people who wanted more freedom to people, as he did. But all they have done was to cement the autocracy.

@dandhan87 7 лет назад

Gew219 sadly it's true, had he survived, Communism could have been dead on arrival, anyway we can't expect anarchists to think straight. Russia is a good example of the wheel of time every civilization rise and fall, a new one rises from its ruins

@bwcmakro 7 лет назад

Alexander II was one of the greatest, if not THE greatest Russian monarchs. He really could have laid down the foundation for a much more free and modern system of government in Russia. He was actually killed because he didn't want to leave his wounded men - his carriage was ambushed by a bomber, but the Tsar was unhurt. However, a few of his guards were. He refused to leave, saying that "military dignity demanded he converse with the wounded men" and then a second bomber, which was set up on a different route, made it to the scene and killed the Tsar.

@agentshadow5 7 лет назад

Makro catherine the great? peter the great?

@rubbishdump09 2 года назад

It has never been mentioned enough that just prior to WW1 Russia had the fastest growing economy in the world (that includes the U.S, which was actually in recession in 1914 and might have remained so had it not been for increased foreign war demands). This Russian growth spurt would have continued under the Kerensky government as armaments had already turned the corner by 1917 while simultaneously consumer goods production began to tick up . Unfortunately for Russia they had the Bolsheviks appear on the scene ( ~1% support, despite their false claims of popularity) These Bolsheviks promptly did what Mao was later to do in China, - drove growth through the floor for decades! Moral of the story: the last thing any country needs is self appointed " intellectual revolutionaries" making any decisions on anything. Whether they are left of centre or right of centre these delusionary quacks are equally incompetent and have always a net negative to the growth and success

@romainperello554 11 месяцев назад

On pure economical terms, Bolsheviks were better than Mao and they did modernized the country. But in a horrible way, and the result was likely inferior to the one you could have got if the civil war had been avoided.

@foobloo101 7 лет назад

Damn. It's crazy to see how the history unfolds. Like watching a never-ending tapestry be woven together.

@mariusstana 7 лет назад

I recomend to all of you Orlando Fige's books on the Russian revolution and Civil war and Richard Pipes's books ! Thank you for this episode, Been expecting this !!

@agentshadow5 7 лет назад

i just hate it the fact when the allies refuse to grant nicholas II a refuge to their countries, yes i get it that there's a huge revolutionary fervor in UK or France if he would take refuge to those countries but come on, russia suffered 10 million casualties in the Great War and yet these "allies" of russia have no sign of respect to the fallen Romanovs

@fairhurst101films 7 лет назад

Northfield Stardford 7 million Russians were dead or wounded by the start of 1917 after the two and a half years of war. Sorry, not taking a side but I like to put out the numbers

@elmaleko1990 7 лет назад

he and his wife had it coming, but not their children tho.

@LukeHaslerMusic 7 лет назад

The Blur The Russian Peasantry called Nicholas "Nicholas the Bloody" after his army's had suppressed peaceful protests with massacres. He refused to allow democratic rule and since Britain was demanding democracy and constitutional monarchies around the world it would have been seen as very, very counterintuitive and ridiculous. Remember that the only monarchy to survive WW1 is the British monarchy. They had to be very careful in every choice to protect themselves and so although the British offered the Tzar and his family a home in England and the offer was later withdrawn after the family couldn't leave Russia due to the children getting the flu it was a fair judgement on the West's part. The Tzar had murdered his own people and caused unimaginable suffering. They had no idea that the Communists would execute the family and in such a cruel way.

@ndalum75 7 лет назад

I'd say it was very unpragmatic in the long term. Having the Tsar still alive would have given the White Army a key figure to rally behind, no matter how controversial he was.

@adamfrisk956 7 лет назад

He didn't murder people. He didn't even know about it. He was away from the city atm.

@michaeldiebold8847 7 лет назад

fantastic job, sir. thank you. as always, your understanding of history is factual and clinical yet entertaining, as it should be.

@cumpanions8105 7 лет назад

Last time I was this early, Conrad still had his job

@NeoYgdrassyl 7 лет назад

This video means that the Russian Revolution starts this week!!!

@Gew219 7 лет назад

NeoYgdrassyl But the democratic revolution, not the communist one, mind you.

@NeoYgdrassyl 7 лет назад

The comunist one sarts in octeber, isnt?

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+NeoYgdrassyl the first one, yes

@Duke_of_Lorraine 7 лет назад

with the Russians still using the Julian calender, it's a bit confusing. For example the February Revolution hasn't started yet and we're in March

@richardshort3914 7 лет назад

*+Duke of Lorraine* In 1805 the Austrians had a firm commitment from the Russians that their armies join up on a specific date. The Austrians assumed the Russians had set the rendezvous based on the Gregorian calendar, not the Julian. The result (known as the _Ulm Campaign_) was a disaster for the Austrians who had to face Napoleon alone.

@derekbastinck811 7 лет назад

That moment when you're hit with a 2 minute ad but there's a popup above the skip button saying ads support your favorite content

@Kr0zBoNE 7 лет назад

Fantastic!! So this was how they were like. Thanks once again for making it easy, fun and interesting to absorb.

@redheadrusskie 7 лет назад

Спасибо большое за ваше предоставление этой исторической информаций без политического уклона.

@SheepFilmsMC 7 лет назад

"oh i know, lets collapse a nation with the worst government type ever in the middle of a world war" -soviet revolutionaries

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Roll of Tape hindsight is 20/20

@wierdalien1 7 лет назад

Roll of Tape its not lenin's fault it went bad its stalin.

@wierdalien1 7 лет назад

Roll of Tape its not lenin's fault it went bad its stalin.

@ilpazzo1257 7 лет назад

Soviets quit the war tho. Also they had a civil war going on after that, which makes messes more messy

@Solaxe 7 лет назад

they quit the war after a crippling treaty

@VladTevez 7 лет назад

_"Oh, those Russians"_

@Mazetism 7 лет назад

Hey Indy, new History Teacher here from Houston. Love your show, been watching these past 3 years. I'd like you to know, I'd be showing your videos when I discuss the Great War.

@CrapeCraft 7 лет назад

The Russian Revoltuion has always perplexed me. They fought so hard to replace and autocratic monarchic government... Only to replace it with an even worse Autocratic Dictatorship.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+CaptainCrape you will see that it's a pretty complex matter. Some also call the second revolution a coup.

@MrDudenaldo457 7 лет назад

Twenty five million people dead in less than a century, pre-decided occupations, lack of food, Brutal squashing of all dissent, near complete outlawing of theism, selective starvings, control on travel, no right of voice or assembly and etc. Communism was Tsarist rule on steroids, with far more murder of course.

@digitalbrentable 7 лет назад

Except that the population, literacy, and life expectancy all grew under the USSR. Not only that, in two short decades the USSR revolutionised Russia from agrarian serfdom into industrialised 'war communism' capable of taking on, and ultimately defeating, Nazi Germany (a highly industrialised, fully developed western military power). After saving the Russian people from wholesale genocide at the hands of Nazis, the soviets then went on to pioneer satellite technology, put the first man into space, and even landed a probe on Venus. Not saying the government of the USSR is beyond reproach, but the idea that communism was a disaster for Russia is obviously muddled, cold-war-era propaganda. The soviets bore the brunt of the German military might, they weathered it, and they won; yet they did this after two decades of destroying their own country?

@CrapeCraft 7 лет назад

But whats worse? The Nazi's or Stalin's great purge, forced famines and appalling war strategy? 23 million died under Stalin, and that's still outside of WW2 millitary deaths, and still excluding the huge number of minorities slaughtered or replaced under his authority.

@CrapeCraft 7 лет назад

Roland Wiggensbach en.m.wikipedia.org

@dylanrodrigues Год назад

I would recommend Mike Duncan’s final season of the Revolutions podcast for more an in-depth and even more fun look into Russian Revolution

@LeftToWrite006 2 года назад

So many times, the people who will benefit the most from a change kill the people who try to implement that change.

@BFFredo 7 лет назад

Hey Indy, love the channel and have been catching up with all the specials. one quick question: when did the terms "The Great War" and "World War" enter the lexicon? Keep up the great work!

@onrr1726 7 лет назад

I have an original Tula arsenal M1891 Mosin - Nagant rifle with the 1914 date stamped on the receiver. The royal coat of arms is still visible. it's a nice shooter for being 102 years old. The receiver has a 4 digit serial number with a letter before and after the number, the bolt has a 3 digit serial number and the box mag 6 digit serial number and the stock has an aluminum tag with 2 digit number on it. There is no import stamp on the rifle.

@jortikkaa568 7 лет назад

Hi TGW team! I vaguely remember my junior high school history teacher saying something like this: Germany wanted to beat Russia, before it could industrialize, and especially before there was a proper railway network in Russia. So the war had to happen in 1914, and not later. Is there anything to it? Thanks for the great show. Keep up the good work!

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+jortikka a that is absolutely correct. for the same reason the Germans couldn't focus on Russia first, not enough railways in East Prussia and beyond to transport enough German troops quickly.

@jortikkaa568 7 лет назад

Thanks for speedy reply :)

@dimitarkondev5522 7 лет назад

Hi Indy. Could you tell us more about the situation of Bulgaria in WW1? Best wishes to you and your crew from Bulgaria. Keep the good work!

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Mitko Kondev there will be more about them soon.

@FunSizeSpamberguesa 4 года назад

Man, these anarchists always do seem to pick the worst possible target to assassinate.

@qasemsoleimani9443 7 лет назад

The antisemitic pogroms in 1905 were not a coincidence. The Tsarist regime intentionally encouraged them, so that the enraged peasants would get distracted from something else than the failures of the monarchy.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

The Black Hundreds paramilitary organisation that organised them was in any ways a precursor of fascism.

@qasemsoleimani9443 7 лет назад

After all, the secret police, Okhrana, and its head, Pyotr Rachkovski were responsible for the creation of the Protocols of the Sages of Sion.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

There were pogroms right after the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, based apparently on one of the more marginal participants in the conspiracy, Jessya Helfman, being Jewish. Large-scale Jewish emigration to the USA and Western Europe resulted. By 1888 a fair part of London's Whitechapel area was inhabited by Russian Jews, leading to rumours that Jack The Ripper was one of them. The tactic of blaming Jews for revolutionary acts was well established by the time Nicholas became Tsar in 1894 - minority groups were in fact well represented in socialist, anarchist and separatist circles. Alexander II had survived an assassination attempt in the 1860s. When the attacker, Karakozov, was brought before him, the Tsar's first question to Karakozov was "Are you a Pole?" The Tsar had trouble believing that an ethnic Russian, as opposed to members of troublesome minorities, would try to kill him. There was a Polish rebellion in 1863 - abolishing serfdom did not end discontent in the Empire.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

The successful assassin in 1881, Hryniewiecki, who was himself mortally wounded in the explosion that killed the Tsar, was a Belarusian Pole, although most participants in the conspiracy were Russians. Despite this, Poles were not particularly victimised for the assassination afterwards.

@qasemsoleimani9443 7 лет назад

Yes, we do, in contrast to Nazis, who blame weak minorities for their failures.

@vincecavanaugh1242 7 лет назад

Dear Indy, first My daughters and I are huge fans of you're channel and want to thank you for what you are doing. Second I'm very curious about the issue of substance abuse during the war. What did the soldiers use and how was the issue handled, were they punished, did they receive help, or did the officers just look the other way due to the situation. thank you for your time and could give a shout out to my daughters Haliegh and Sara and their 5th grade class which has been using your videos as a learning tool in their study of the Great War. Thanks again Vince Cavanaugh

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Vince Cavanaugh Hi vince, glad you all like the show. we already talked about cocaine etc. in the war in another out of the trenches episode.

@kaiserhr16 7 лет назад

The best history show on the internet. You should do an episode on subjects of Austria-Hungary as Kingdom of Croatia, Kingdom of Hungary, Bosnia and what each of them did in the war.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Dominik Hikari we intend to

@Sasuri 7 лет назад

Can you do a video of the Railways, Steam Engines, and Trains during the Great War? I would love to see that in a Special.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Louis Mendoza coming in about two or three weeks.

@Milos89kv 7 лет назад

Awesome

@stephen9869 7 лет назад

Great idea.

@CrossOfBayonne 3 года назад

There were a number of steam locomotives meant for Russia which we built here in the US but when revolution broke out many of them were never sent there and got assigned to American railroads

@feldwebelhahn8703 7 лет назад

hey indy and crew i love this channel you all put in good work and now my question for out of the trenches did you wake up one day and decide to do this series or has is been a planned out for a while thanks guys for the 3 years of entertainment and knowledge

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Feldwebel Hahn check the interview episode with indy

@bobfarmer8218 7 лет назад

Excellent job Indy and crew

@gspaulsson 7 лет назад

Alexander II wasn't assassinated by anarchists, but by the populist group Narodnaia Volya (The Nation's Will), which was vaguely socialist and eventually became the Socialist Revolutionaries, Kerensky's party, which formed the government after the Tsar abdicated and won the elections to the Constitutional Assembly in 1917. By then, they had become a western-style social democratic party.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

Bakunin, a key Russian anarchist, had had some influence on the group's development. Anarchists had some influence on a wide range of movements and individuals who were not exactly anarchists. Gavrilo Princip was for example a Serbian nationalist, but some of his writings and reported statements suggest anarchist influence.

@AriGold134 7 лет назад

Who is this giant dude (general) who almost always walks next to the tsar?

@sryan9547 7 лет назад

Ha, I just thought the Tsar was short. That dude is huge!

@Geobacter 7 лет назад

It should be Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia (1856-1929).

@aritakalo8011 7 лет назад

+Irishman Actually they were apparently known among family as Nikolas the Tall and Nikolas the Short. Since the taller Nikolas is Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich Romanov of Russia and was a cousin of the short Nikolas, Tsar Nicholas II

@Lagunabeachbikini 7 лет назад

According to internet Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia was 6′ 6″ while Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was 5'7". Tsar Nicholas II's father, His Imperial Majesty Tsar Alexander III, was 6'3" and a mighty man. Alexander III looks like he could be a WWF wrestler.

@TukozAki 4 года назад

That's one noble who reaally deserved his title, for once!

@KyrillosPubliusTP 7 лет назад

Dear Indy, Thank you for making this video!!!!!!! Also, thanks for making the new video about the Cossacks!!!!!!! Regards, James Isakov

@molotov1936yo 7 лет назад

This is the best channel on youtube. Thanks for all the effort and knowledge bombs. Salude!

@pyrosauria7444 7 лет назад

Will we get a Lenin and Stalin during the war episode? :o

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Pyroskies Lenin for sure. But Stalin did less than nothing in this war.

@CochoSGO 7 лет назад

Actually Stalin was in charge of the bolschevik party during the february revolution, as Lenin was on the exile, yet he did nothing of value during that time, to the point to being in talks about integrating the transitional goverment which would've been ruinous to the bolschevik cause.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

I think Stalin was still in Siberian exile at the time of the February revolution, being released after it. He had been jailed and then sent to Siberia a little before the outbreak of war.

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

He appeared before a draft board after the outbreak of war but was found to be unfit for military service, as one arm was shorter than the other (this is clear in some photos) and this meant he could not align a rifle properly.

@alexmalkin6093 7 лет назад

Thanks for making this video Indy

@Duke_of_Lorraine 7 лет назад

During the Napoleonic Wars, the Russians famously made a gross timing error when trying to help the Austrians : due to the offset between their calender and the gregorian calender, they arrived on time... according to their calendar so that means 2 weeks late, and during that time Napoleon had already kicked most of the asses in Austria (meaning that almost no Austrian troops were left to fight at Austerlitz). Did the Russians have similar problems when trying to coordinates with their allies in WW1 ?

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

Perhaps. Russian commanders could not seem to coordinate with one another, let alone allies on the other side of Europe. By WW1, Russian desk calendars gave the Julian and Gregorian dates on the same page (note that at the end of the 1927 Soviet film October, such a desk calendar is shown, with the date October 25/November 7).

@milesransweiler70 7 лет назад

Ra Ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine

@stevekaczynski3793 7 лет назад

I remember that being played at a disco at my school not long after the song was released.

@oscarfellows6709 6 лет назад

There was a cat that really was gone!

@eriktillman8114 6 лет назад

It was a shame how he carried on!

@0hn0haha 6 лет назад

That song is so historically inaccurate, honestly... I cringe whenever I hear it.

@renel8964 5 лет назад

Oh those Russians...

@MikaelKKarlsson 7 лет назад

The last four tsarist loyalists in the world found this video surprisingly fast.

@pedroledoux9779 5 лет назад

In 1914 80% of Russian empire's population was rural. When a country makes the transition from a rural society to urban and industrial one it's economy has a huge boom. UK, France and Germany had did this transition before 1914. Russia not yet, this process was ongoing. Some economists predicted that Russia would become the Europe's greatest economy after this transition, they would be something much bigger and powerfull than UK, France and Germany.

@AFT_05G 5 лет назад

Pedro Ledoux Anyway Russia’s economy was larger than France during ww1.

@morganlewis6605 7 лет назад

Would you consider doing a special on the Russo-Japanese war? as a sort of prelude to the Russain revoltuion, essentially, just get into more detail about it.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Morgan Lewis sorry, if we did that, we would need to cover a lot of other wars too.

@morganlewis6605 7 лет назад

No need to be sorry! Thanks for getting back to me! Love what you guys do, keep up the great work! :)

@CONCERTMANchicago 4 года назад

You know I think it was cool experiencing the Great War day-by-day with Indiana Neidell a hundred years later. _But did we have to experience that whole world virus pandemic thing too?!?_

@charleslaine 7 лет назад

Please do a special on August Von Mackensen's amazing hat!

@GECKOZFTW 7 лет назад

History. I need more. MORE!

@oliversherman2414 2 года назад

Keep up the great stuff

@MrFinnboy69 7 лет назад

Are you thinking about making a special episode about the Finnish civil war, since it was kinda a part of wwi... Sure that only happens next year, but still.

@Gorboduc 11 месяцев назад

Imagine if Alexander III lived. He'd only have been around 70 when the war began, a veritable spring chicken next to Franz Josef. 🤔

@Eaglewilliamjohn 7 лет назад

ohh boy, it's almost revolution time! Looking forward to this and next week's episodes

@brokenbridge6316 4 года назад

If only the Tsar realized that autocracy was broken and outdated. Would he have tried to reform it. I don't know. Great job.

@kinggodzilla309 2 года назад

The world would be a better place if the Russian revolution never happened

@MichaTheLight Год назад

The Tsars reluctance towards modernization produced their violent demise. Bolscheqiks would be never able to grap power when an decade before an constitutional monarchy would have done the necessary reforms to "entschärf" social bomb lungering into Russian society.

@axpro1118 7 лет назад

(for OOTT) Hi Indy and crew was there ever an instance of both sides charging at once?

@TranscendianIntendor 5 лет назад

I made care to define myself as a Godwin Anarchist, and I continue to hold to Godwin's definition of what the duties of any legitimate government are. The two duties of any government are Defense & Education. My own novella "The Revolutionary" (amazon, audiobook being best version) taught me anarchy leads to isolation & despair. Philosophy matters a great deal. "I am my ideas." and the Russians get really passionate about it from all I can tell. What we have now is Russian Rand Dystopian Objectivism in conflict with waning, or ground down by numerous factors & beliefs American Ethical Eclectic Pragmatism. in short.

@finhistorychannel5210 6 лет назад

Great video!

@Depipro 7 лет назад

A great look behind the scenes of late imperial, wartime, revolutionary and early Soviet Russia is offered by the autobiographical novels of Konstantin Paustovski (6 parts). Hereby warmly recommended!

@BuffaStuffa18 7 лет назад

Love this channel. Should think about doing a WW2 and Civil War series.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

m.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/?compact=true

@BuffaStuffa18 7 лет назад

The Great War Thanks for the reply and thank you for great content.

@michealohaodha9351 7 лет назад

My compliments gents on an excellent episode.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+Michéal Ó hAodha thanks

@darth254 7 лет назад

Russia gets a lot of flak for their performance during World War 1 but they did pretty darn good against Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, and they did just enough over the 3 or so years they were in the war for the Allies to win. The Germans were simply on another level than anyone else. I'm probably more impressed with Germany's World War 1 performance over their World War 2 performance...the Germans just sucked diplomatically so hard though during this war to offset their military achievements.

@sirierieott5882 5 лет назад

If only... What a different world it could have been.

@Syndie702 7 лет назад

"Modern War has become unprofitable, and a drawn out conflict has become impossible. Industrialized economies are so bound together by trade that a conflict of any duration would lead quickly to collapse, starvation, and revolution." That literally sounds like it could have been written in the early 2000s. I'm not saying there's going to be another Great War, but it's not nearly as far-fetched as people think it is (and it probably won't be nuclear.)

@markocrljenica8632 7 лет назад

@The Great War Can you tell something more about concrete examples of inflexibility od autocratic rule od Nicholai II? Keep up with great work, greetings from Serbia.

@thenoosewasthebestinventio9180 7 лет назад

Are you guys ever going to make a Finland special?

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+the noose was the best invention December

@richardkajander1126 7 лет назад

I look forward to it. In one respect, the former Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, led by Carl Mannerheim, could be considered (from one limited angle) as the only "White Russian general" to succeed and survive the Russian Revolution.

@dubiouswatermelon159 7 лет назад

Richard Kajander good point

@piiparinen3456 6 лет назад

Finland will celebrate its 100 years independence anniversary at december 6th....

@JagerLange 7 лет назад

Another great special - I did want to mention a curiosity I'd encountered about pre-Revolution history, specifically from a UK perspective - I did a module (semester) of Russian history at school and Stolypin featured only briefly, and even then as an example of repression as if him being assassinated was to be expected (the main take-away being the 'Stolypin necktie', the euphemism for capital punishment by hanging). However, a few years later I was surprised and a little confused to read that in "Name Of Russia" (a popular poll for the greatest Russian, similar to Great Britons in the UK), Stolypin came second behind Alexander Nevsky - Stalin came third, which was slightly less understandable (and I say "understandable" loosely...) In short, there appeared to be a lot missing with regard to Stolypin's role in events, either he was misrepresented/misinterpreted and Russians remember him far differently, or simply he isn't/wasn't considered to be as important a figure as people remember him. I'd be happy to have any anyone down here in the comments add more.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

+JagerLange not we're curious too

@wasteofmytime08 7 лет назад

Thankyou for this, way more interesting than my a level textbooks

@kevinbyrne4538 7 лет назад

Nicholas II reminds me of "Major Kong" in the film "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), who rode a hydrogen bomb as it dropped from his bomber until the bomb exploded, whooping and hollering the entire time, as if he were riding in a rodeo. Nicholas II was colossally stubborn and essentially drove his nation over a cliff. Like the other emperors, he was the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.

@MrDucehands 7 лет назад

@LaibaAhmed-kv3hi 2 дня назад

watching this for Greenhead work 😃😃

@MrManiaMichael 7 лет назад

Just in time for revs sac ty!!

@jakepowell2345 7 лет назад

Dammit, just finished my coursework on this. If only you'd made it a bit earlier...... No probs though. Great vid

@napoleonibonaparte7198 7 лет назад

If only the idiot anarchists didn't assassinate Alexander II, maybe, the monarchy can be saved... Fun fact: The armoured carriage was a gift from my nephew, Napoleon III. The carriage was used by Alexander II during the last assassination attempt. He was saved by the carriage from the explosion, BUT, he wanted to see the assailants. He died from another explosion from the last assailant. From then on from his first few assassination attempts, the Tsars would always have guards. Before, the Tsars would roam freely, people wouldn't bother, neither the Tsars will.

@Jarod-vg9wq 5 лет назад

Adapt or die, something the romanovs didn’t figure out at all in the last years of the war.

@thiery572 5 лет назад

Very interesting. Thanks.

@gideonhorwitz9434 4 года назад

Russia was the last truly medieval autocracy in Europe. The blood and violence of the 1917 revolution was a tragic yet in hindsight an inevitable consequence. If a political system is unable or unwilling to embrace reform the only way it can go is to be violently overthrown.

@josephericksberg7197 7 лет назад

Hello Indy, I'm very interested in learning the different factors and aspects of the Great War. I'm also an armchair Russian historian, particularly interested in the rise of Marxist-Leninism and the USSR in general. I wanted to thank you for the contribution to my knowledge about Russian history prior to the February and October Revolution!!! You run a very interesting and thought-provoking channel that I appreciate and learn from every day. Keep up the good work!!! I did want to ask you a question though, and hopefully (in my wildest dreams) that it will be featured in Out of the Trenches. What was it like for the average soldier during the dissolution of the Russian Army in 1917? What were the general sentiments, fears, or hopes of the average soldier during that time? I'd love to hear your answer. Sincerely, Joseph Ericksberg

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

Thanks a lot for your kind words! That is indeed a good question for OOTT.

@Jungoguy 7 лет назад

Have you guys heard of the 1917 live project? It's a recreation of the events in Russia in 1917 via Twitter. And the next few weeks should be big

@WarriorGaming4575 7 лет назад

In my class, we've just learned about the Russian Revolution before we began our reading of Animal Farm by George Orwell! It'll be awesome to come here and actually know about some of the stuff I'm hearing about!

@shoopdawhoop8730 7 лет назад

hey indy and team. I heard a story that in ww1 on the eastern front the germans and russians lost a lot of people to wolves. They were stop fighting to kill wolves cause it got out of control. Any idea if that story is true? Sounds crazy to me.

@peterlynch1458 7 лет назад

At 5:38 I think what Indy meant to say was "War Were Declared".

@abbanta3002 5 лет назад

Russia never lost the Crimean war the french wrote a peace treaty and Russia accepted it and singed it because the french and the English we’re starting to lose a lot of soldiers. Russia lost about 5k and the allies about 7k or 8k

@pikminlord343 7 лет назад

a great discussion

@LifeStyle-uh1ns 7 лет назад

Nice C&Rsenal poster you got there :-)

@clifftrainor6774 5 лет назад

"Both of those guys were very wrong." Lol!

@deskompt 7 лет назад

Can you do a special episode about Portugal? I never see much information about my country.

@TheGreatWar 7 лет назад

Already filmed, will be out soon.

@deskompt 7 лет назад

AWESOME! Thank you very much! :D Don't forget to talk about Aníbal Augusto Milhais (aka "Soldier Millions") the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I and the only Portuguese soldier awarded the highest national honour ;P