Yea, the IRA Marixts released him for further progranda. They realised that they lost the war and no more free socialist cookies are coming their way (since the women found capalism and demands equal pay for equal work). They can no longer Rob banks, since banks hardly have enough cash to make the effort. They remains stuck in the old ways of living.
Socialism is good. I'd prefer not to have a repeat of the USSR's Totalism though. We should give libertarian socialism a go. Anarcho-Syndicalism, Council Communism, things like these.
Anti Fascist Action how would a stateless society actually work on a large scale? In this world of today where every single region, state or province in the world is reliant on resources from the exterior there must be a regulatory force behind it, whether it is a market or a government. The world is no longer self sufficient and with this large of a population it cannot become self sufficient. A barter system cannot work today simply because the nature of trade is too international. Yes a person could trade seeds for meat today but that person can't trade seeds for copper, lithium, steel, plastic, glass, aluminum and rubber to make a car and distribute that same car on an international scale
I'm actually not against currency, or governance for that matter so long as said government is directly re-callable at anytime and is not bought out by corporations. Only way to keep corporate interest out of politics is to get rid of corporations.
+Madman F1 Yes, that was a surprising omission. This video made it seem like all the Bolsheviks had to do was take the Winter Palace to control the country. It wasn't that simple.
Godlike Fam socialism has only taken root in countries where people living in poverty have been pushed to socialism. Russia wasn’t impoverished after I️t became socialist, socialism dragged Russia out of an agrarian based society and into an industrial powerhouse that rivaled the United States. Also, keep in mind that in countries like Cuba and North Korea, there’s massive sanctions and embargo’s against them. And another thing, North Korea has had trouble with food because their agriculture was flooded and destroyed during the Korean War by their dams being bombed and also having a colder climate making I️t harder to produce food. Also, in Cuba, despite the sanctions, Cuba has developed vaccines for certain cancers and has a global health initiative.
1:37 mistake, kind of a big one - This mass of people gathered there not to protest against the Tsar, but to meet him and explain him their problems, also having a list of ideas (such as lesser work hours). That's why (and also bcs sunday) everyone was dressed in their best and sang orthodox hymns. Btw, the Tsar was not even in the city at that time. So this whole shooting from the soldiers was just a huge mistake from the city's governor. Sad truth.
It is so sad that people always forget the civil war simply saying it happened for years and millions died Others don't even mention it... No big deal?
The White Wolfe If you're believing Solzhenitsyn, then you're batshit insane. This guy literally had "liar"-LZHETS in his name and this stories are bullshit. Just look at census of population and you'll find out that it was growing whole time on millions with only exceptions of civil war and world war. And there is no demographic pit, unlike, say, Campuchia, where Pol Pot indead made genocide.
Ruddy this is a great vid as usual, the drawings are so detailed I really appreciate all the work that must go into these :) also the typography of 'st Petersburg' at 3:15 is beautiful
I just got a whole lot happier after seeing you'd uploaded. Another excellent video, John! I've always said, none of us can expect you to just upload a new video every hour or whatever, and those that do can literally f**k off. You're a busy person, you can't always dedicate your time to RU-vid, and some people need to get that into their thick skulls. I am interested in your new book, and hopefully I'll be purchasing it soon. Although, knowing me I'll end up forgetting or something...but yeah, another great video. Good luck on your other endeavours!
The part where you mentioned how Rasputins was dug up and burned, and then the body sat up for just a second was great, seeing as that actually happened, though it was due to retracting heat.
I do home schooling and you only have a week to 2 weeks to do a project then you move on so I had to do the history of Russia and France and this is perfect! It's so fast and gives me the information I need without spending hours reading notes and articles. Thank you so much!
How accurate! You described with so much details. I'm Russian, I read articles about the revolution. You haven't missed anything important. You even properly wrote texts in foreign language. You're a good hisrorian I guess.
My dad told me that my great-grandfather was a Russian soldier during WW1 that fled to Serbia in 1918 to escape communism. With the USSR, he died in 1990. He died being 97 years old even tho he fought in two absolutely terrifying wars. I wish i had the chance to meet him
Lenin put an end to Russian involvement in World War I- Peace! Lenin nationalized land and distributed it among the peasents-land! Lenin collectivized bread and formed the foundations of it's full implementation in the 1930s to stop constant famines in the Russian Empire- Bread!
@@lastnamefirstname5295 only 1 famine happened in the USSR (Holodomor) and that's it. Meanwhile in the Russian Empire, there were constant famines because the nobility, and the rich peasents would hoard grain. Most other peasents then wouldn't have food so famine.
@@GeneralissimusStalin17 The easier, albeit less informative, way of putting it would have been to say, "Famine? Starving masses? Oh, that was Stalin."
@@spaghettimon3851 Fascism and Communism are just two sides of the same coin so stop glorifying one and demonizing the other cause they both suck, and Stalin was just a douchbag that just wanted to stay in power
13 points I want to point out since I am a communist who is well studied on the USSR and the Russian Revolution. 1: Every communist and/or socialist will say that before a "communist utopia" is reached there is the transition phase which is socialism. Communism, a global classless, stateless society, is not able to be obtained in a situation where the capitalist imperialist hold some form of power, for pushing a nation to statelessness and classlessness would leave the region weak enough to be dominated by capitalist imperialists. The natural progression of society is to move from capitalism to a workers socialist state, to where state withers away in to communism once capitalism has collapsed globally. 2: Lenin never believed a communist revolution (the correct term is socialist revolution) would succeed by the strong leadership of one person or a few. Lenin believed and argued that the most advanced sections of the working class must become class conscious and take the duty of leading the working class to class consciousness and class war against the capitalist class who exploits them. Then, once a workers state is established, the working class must take position in local soviets, voting in representatives from among the working class, who will also sit upon the supreme soviet (congress) to deal with national issues. The subject of how the party worked was everyone had a single vote, and no one, not even the leader of the party, could overrule another and consolidate power for themselves. For more on the soviet government and electoral system I recommend the following video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9PoYzPfguJc.html 3: Thing I need to add on regards to the Agricultural farmers and WWI; due to the war there was a wealthy class among the farmers called kulaks who bought 9/10ths of all the farm land in Russia. Why is this important? Because around 1927-28, the kulaks started hoarding food to cause a crisis in the USSR, which lead to collectivization in 1928 to take the farms and feed the people again, which caused a revolt by the kulaks who burned food supplies and killed livestock, ultimately leading to the famine of 1932-33. I know this isn't related to the video but none the less still important to add. 4: Lenin and his comrades (he had a group of revolutionary communists with him when they went back to Russia) was terrified to head back, expecting to be arrested at any time during the trip due to a large number of communist revolutionaries heading to a country that is on its last legs. 5: Lenin's main goal was to take Russia out of the war because it goes in line with the communist view of war. That being to maintain peace and diplomacy and to never go in to war unless on the grounds of self-defense (such as the example of WWII when the soviet's declared to fight off the Nazi invasion) 6: Trotsky was not a Bolshevik he was a Menshevik. The only reason he was involved with the soviets was due to his amazing military strategy, which is why he was made general of the Red Army for a short time, before he let his genocidal tendencies get the better of him, gained the name of a butcher, and was, as result, removed from his post. 7: The Bolsheviks grew in popularity due the the fact that they was well organized and doing a lot for the working people in Russia, the Mensheviks and revolutionary socialists was very unorganized, fighting among themselves, and doing little for the people of Russia. 8: The Mensheviks always fought with the Bolsheviks, even before the revolution the Menshevik, Leon Trotsky, slandered Lenin and the Bolshevik movement, in which Lenin returned the favor on multiple occasions within his collected works (Lenin's collected works is 45 volumes.) Of course with the popularity of the Bolsheviks and them rising to power, the Mensheviks would act sore and mad and complain of "power grab" when the opposite was the case. 9: Lenin and his movement had the majority support from the working people, if they didn't the revolution would have collapsed. Lenin was elected head of state (the status of leader.) 10: The Tsar, specifically Nicholas and his wife, was guilty of mass starvations, unethical treatment of the working class people, forcing workers in to a war, unloading shots in to protesters, etc. They deserved their execution. The children I disagree with deserved execution, however the way the entire event took place, it felt like it was done at a local level by a unregulated group rather than by the orders of Lenin. 11: In 1947 the countries who became part of the Soviet Union didn't get "absorbed", they joined by free will. Some of the nations joined after the Soviets came to fix the nations up due to the destruction of Nazi invasion. Ask a lot of the people from those nations and a good chunk will talk of how the Nazis came and destroyed everything in a brutal genocidal campaign, and then the soviets came and built schools, hospitals, etc. 12: The anti-Bolshevik forces was interested in re-establishing the monarchy, and was aided by over 7 capitalist countries around the globe. They went from city to city in Russia killing entire towns, repressing pro-communist civilians, etc. They was the fascists before Nazi Germany. There was even other sects during the revolution such as the anarchist faction who pretty much did the same thing the white army did, while fighting the white army as well. 13: The "early bloody years of the Soviet Union" was more so during the periods of the revolution and the civil war, after that the only other times it was bloody was during the revolts of the kulaks and the "great" purge, which was carried out under a corrupt NKVD officer called Yezov who targeted government officials. He was later arrested along with the purgers, tried, found guilty, and executed.
Hey Ruddy Nice job on these videos you somehow make all these complicated yet intresting historical events. Could you touch into the subject of the Mexican American war? Either way Great job on your videos :)
Some notes. Petrograd Soviet had to work with Duma due to Duma having the legislative power (Emperor gave them the imperial seal) Also, the October Revplution becoming public was not actually done for publicity. Party officials that did NOT agree with doing it at that particular time, made it public.
fun fact: animal farm is meant to be an analogy of the russian revolution and the beginning of the cold war. because of this, the cia funded the creation of the 1954 movie
Iamtherevolution It's called "christian communism". Apperently they belive that Jesus was a communist and the society he created was a communist society.
kok namm liberation theology a set of teachings which emphasizes freedom and socialism. "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to pass into heaven" Jesus Christ
The idea and execution of communism is, like most things, nuanced. Many people forget that from the 1960s-early 1980s the USSR actually wasn’t doing that bad. North Korea was doing better than South Korea until Kim Il-Sung died. Now naturally, communism was flawed and failed because of autocrats. But Capitalism wasn’t exactly thriving either. The Cold War was just a shitty era for everyone. Don’t fool yourself with inherent biases.
My friend, the communist: Name a more iconic duo than Communism and the People. Me, a liberal who realizes that communism is actually flawed and doesn't really care: Capitalism and food.
George Watkins No they're not. He mentions "the civil war can be another video on it's own", which should've tipped you off. The Russian Civil war happened somewhat simultaniously with the revolution, starting with the uprising of the (White) Don Cossacks when the Soviets dissolved the provisional government. Later (1918 and onward), White forces from all over Russia joined the fight. The entente got involved and splinter nations (like Poland, Finland, the Baltic stated) started fighting against Red forces
Until he started his "John Talks" videos, I'd forgotten that his Dublin City accent sat on top of an Ulster one. You can put the blame for how fast he talks on the latter accent, I'm thinking. City people speak faster, by and large.
@@bundleoffuck2986 not really. frankly us workers have things a lot better off than they did in Marx's day - at least in developed countries. You can thank the union movement for the 8 hour day, the 5 day week, workplace safety - for pretty much all workers rights. That's why we haven't seen very much socialism in the past few decades, things have been pretty tolerable. I wonder if that will change with the introduction of widespread automation.
