I know this is actually more often than not the exception rather than the norm but apart from the obvious quality product of this series and your other videos I have to applaud your meticulous listing of all sources you really do rarely find that
Thank you! Although it may slow down the videomaking process, I think maintaining a high standard for research and sourcing is really important for these types of educational videos
@@jsmedia-ww6gb the mod takes place 2 days after ww1 ended, right in the middle of the russian civil war, you're gonna be able to play as multiple different factions in the war including the bolsheviks, the greens, separatist movements, the siberian whites, and the southern whites
Glad I found your channel, RU-vid knows what I want now. This is the type of thorough work we need for the online left - also very digestible and entertaining
@@Stellar_Politics Is that what you call denialism now? MLs and Fascists on Bitchute all sound the same, just like Stalin you'd sacrifice the lives of peasants if it meant advancing your goals of industry or what have you. I hope you're not going to deny that he exported grain during a famine like the Tsar's did for their own goals. Honestly just read economics or grow a heart
Very cool video. This election series is a really interesting way of framing the history and exploring stuff that isn't usually talked about in other videos
Have you ever posted the full image you’re using of the different Russian political parties/factions? You keep scrolling through it but I don’t think you ever showed the full image. Great video!
Yes, the 10 delegates shown at the end refer to them. More specifically, the Mezhraiontsy group combined with other internationalists at the Congress, and began to call themselves the "United Social-Democrats", as their goal was to spur a unification of the various left SD factions. Some Mezhraiontsy affiliates appear to have also been within the 73 "Non-Factional" delegation. Confusingly, after this Congress the Mensheviks formally adopted the name "RSDLP (United)", meaning they could also be called the "United SDs". Also, while Mezhraiontsy mostly was absorbed into the Bolsheviks, the remnants that refused called themselves the "United SD Internationalists", which eventually became the RSDLP(i) as shown in the next video. Therefore, there's at least three different groups here who sought to be called the "United SDs" in 1917.
Hey, glad to see you here. I've been a huge fan of your channels for years now, and your Israeli series was definitely a big inspiration behind this series, so it's a bit surreal to see your comment haha. I hope you don't mind, I have a link to your channel in the description of each video. Feel free to send me a message if you ever want to talk Russian history or whatever (I'm @nojrants on discord)
It's hard not to have increasingly anti-bolshevik biases the more you learn about how ridiculous the party was. But yeah, it's better to present information neutrally and let the listener draw their own conclusions.
@@hieronymusbutts7349 Ye, it's hard not to have biases i get it, but to be historic/scientific you gotta let them go. Like have you noticed how Noj doesn't mention that Lenin's defeatists are a part of internationalists? He intentionally tries to distinguish them to show that the mensheviks were good and bolsheviks were bad, even though Martov was not an internationalis at the begining of the war unlike Lenin. He also tries to make the viewer believe that bolsheviks and Lenin were opposed to peace without annexation and contribution and only wanted the defeat of their government no matter what, unlike mensheviks which is simply not true.
@@hlary8320 it's not about showing something in good or bad light, it's a about personal biases that you don't control, but which control you. If you are showing something in good OR bad light you already failed to be unbiased.
@@georgeniceguy3934 I'll be honest, I generally don't trust RU-vid for specific historical details, but to try and fill in the gaps of my historical ignorance with some broad strokes. I can't say I noticed these things because I don't know enough details about it.
