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FUN FACT: "One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd's luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 600.
Very interesting. I am wondering Putin's true opinion on the communism in the US/Britain and the WEF plans for world government. It seems strange we are fighting Russia unless we are just in the process of redistributing wealth. I don't know much about him.
@@timeforchange3786 his views on the subjects tou mention are well documented? Are you being sarcastic or have you genuinely just not looked into his opinion on the matter?
Marx described how a proletarian state would arise, not what it would look like. Lenin didn't abandon Marxism, but he was forced to "wing it" as the Soviet State was breaking new ground by simply existing
i think most people perceive marxism as a fully fleshed out ideology with political and governmental prescriptions due to the fact that stalin called his "marxism-leninism" when in fact marxism is nothing of the sort. it would be more accurately described as marxist thought or analysis.
Let me say only one thing here. The video says that it was likely that Lenin did not know of his mother's Jewish heritage. But in a recent Dutch podcast I heard a professor of history say that Lenin was proud of his part-Jewish heritage, because he admired some intellectual Jews and had a high esteem of them. So my point is: so many things are said on the internet without any reliable source and many of those 'facts' or strong assumptions are not true at all.
All of the RUssian leader were jewish and now in these days all of the royal families as well as they forced them due to the baby boom were descovered by a jew scientis and as usual blackmailed them all. now they are all over in the world in power YET other than PUTIN the KGB guy and Trump try to sortered out but is is too late because the US played out and betreaded PUTIN with the black and TRUMP Is betraded to fail by the Australians
Well 5 out of 21 of the top leaders in the early ussr were jewish, antisemitism was punishable by death (a lot of things were) and jews were the only ones who had a chance of leaving legally. To Israel for families’ unification. (I remember the joke - “a Jewish spouse is the means of locomotion”) Now, if you asked to leave the Soviet paradise, it, of course, turned you into a traitor to the state, and, as one, you could lose your job (not working in the Soviet Union was against the law, punishable by a prison sentence). Your friends could be found guilty by association.
@5:20 the video mentions the writer Mikhail Bulgokov (sic) ... the reference likely is to the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), rather than to Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), who was obviously not a contemporary of Dostoyevsky or Kropotkin.
I learned about Lenin in high school as my country was then ruled by a socialist and learning the Marxist-Leninist political theory in school was a requirement. I was always fascinated by his ideology. However, I didn’t know about his childhood and overall upbringing until today. This is a well organized & informative documentary! Thank you.
The two things that really helped me put this all into perspective were 1) 50% of the Russian population in 1905 was illiterate and worked in agriculture, 2) This whole revolution happened while the Soviets were being invaded on 14 fronts at the same time and won
@@raddkahnengels 1) Much more then 50%. 2) Revolution happend during WW I, during civil war the country was invaded but there were not do many fronts of course.
@@andreyevsv I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the 14 nation coalition that came in the help the whites during the civil war. That’s why he’s saying 14 fronts.
I read the history of Russia since I can remember- this video filled many gaps. Thanking you for a very informative and brilliantly compiled part of history!
The very title is misleading - it wasn't Russian Revolution, it was *Jawish" Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky were only 2 of many "*Jaws* and the Bolsheviks were funded by J-ish bankers. Marxism itself is J-ish and hardly anyone talks about it because you can't ever talk about J-s. Me comments get removed for spelling the word in such context.. But guess what, this platform is also theirs, same as Meta platforms like FB.
@@lindyswing4368what? Do you prefer the right wing version which teaches that Lenin was actually a Jewish lizard man who wanted to make everyone gay and is the incarnation of Satan himself? Is that what you wanted to hear?
Extraordinary presentation. Many decades ago I pursued a graduate degree in Russian and Soviet history so I know a little something about Lenin. But your bio here expanded my knowledge. I would only add that there's a school of thought that Krupskaya had a significant hand in Lenin's final testament and I expected something on that issue. But overall I am deeply impressed with this superb presentation.
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The documentary was good but you should do MORE RESEARCH. The Russian experience under communism is a helluve lot more than an hour long documentary. But I appreciate the videos author for bring this to light. It was WORSE than any of us in the west can imagine. Go read The gulag archipelago, by Alexander solzhenitsyn to get a true scope of the horror that was the USSR.
@@justinrichardson4456 If you are going to recommend a resource for studying a historical event, at least make sure that it's somewhat reliable. The gulag archipelago is at best a personal anecdote jumbled up with a collection of rumors such that it's impossible to distinguish what parts are personal experience and what parts come from rumors written by a fascist, at worst -and more likely-, fiction.
There was no “communism” in Russia. That’s what they hoped to achieve sometime. What they have built was a socialism. It was not a Russian but Jewish movement and eventually revolution supported by western bankers.
More than a million people were killed for political or religious reasons during what is known as the Red Terror, between 1918 and 1922, the harshest time of Lenin's dictatorship. Many more were butchered & slaughtered on the orders of the satanic communist scumbag right up until his death is 1924.
"[As Tsar Alexander] approached, the police arrested three young People's Will terrorists carrying bombs to perpetrate a second 1 March outrage. Five terrorists were hanged, including their bomb-maker, Alexander Ulyanov, aged nineteen, whose execution had a decisive influence on his younger brother, Vladimir, the future Lenin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 470.
the first Soviet Constitution of 1918 was adopted; instead of a unitary state, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) appeared; the capital was moved from Petrograd to Moscow; the abolition of estates, the Soviet man became a citizen of the republic; introduction of the Western European calendar (Gregorian); established 8-hour working day; a regulation on the social security of the elderly and disabled was adopted; laws have been passed to protect women's and child labor; free education and free medicine were proclaimed; the church is separated from the state and the school; nationalization of banks, industry, railway transport, sea and river ports; land socialization.
Usually when there is a documentary about Lenin it fails to be objective and it is strongly biased against Lenin. This doc is an exception. It does present a balanced and accurate veiw.
@@johnstudd4245Global capitalist imperialism kills hundreds of thousands every day through starvation or American bombs but libs never want to talk about that.
It seems that Lenin was less rabidly idealistic and more pragmatic in his latter years, especially compared to Stalin; a bit less power hungry as well. I imagine if Lenin had lived to rule for another 10-20 years, the Soviet Union may have developed quite a bit differently and history could look quite different.
What if JFK didn’t get assassinated? What if Hitler was killed during WW1 ? What if Russia fired a nuclear missile at Florida ? Etc etc Whataboutism is always pointless, because it’s never ending .
Stalin was faced with upcoming war, and he new it. It was his burden to prepare SU for the war, and he has done good. Stalin and Lenin was pragmatic because Marxism means dialectical materialism, it is about since and not about ideas. Idealistic is to believe in capitalism that is sentenced to devore itself.
Exactly, and such danger is why Lenin launched the Bolshevik governmental takeover earlier than the time he expected for a successful capitalist stage, per Marx. Therefore, he skipped that stage and went straight to socialism. Lenin had feared that if the ill-equipped Russian Army would not be a defensive match against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary) and all Russian lands would belong to the Central Powers.
It is good to see a documentary on UA-cam that doesn't show the Lenin and the Communist as bloodthirsty monsters, but gives a more or less impartial portrayal of Lenin and the Communists. Let us not forget that under the Communists, the Russian life expectancy, which was a medieval 30 years before the Communists came to power, matched the West at 65 years by 1960. The Communists moved their country forward by centuries in a mere several decades.
True Communist isuch better than the sold out or should I say whored out capitalism...I am now a communist..I welcome with very wide open arms..too.😮I've had my belly full of republican dogmatic capitalism...fuck texas too.
I never said Lenin was an angel. The "Red Terror" was unleashed against the enemies of the State onhy when Lenin was nearly killed in an assassination attempt in 1919. Did you miss THAT part?@@alb7869
Very clearly biased against Lenin, but still more "neutral" than most western bourgeois documentaries. Giving Lenin a fair opinion by putting his historical role and the context of tsarism
43:54 "a new Ukrainian state" requires the extreme clarification that it was only the Lwow/Gallicia/Volynhia region that was ruled by the self declared state in Lwow. When Germany collapsed it became a very venal anti-Jewish anti-Russian proto Nazi state that had only 13% or so literacy. There were competing and even more vicious racist bandit states in Kiev (Petlura) and Zaporozyhe (the so called anarchists who were basically rapists and marauders), plus Tsarists still in Rostov whose first move was to attack northwest to reconnect with Europe. The Lwow proto-Nazis were defeated by Poland. The others by the Tsarists. Then the Red Ukraine forces from Kharkov and the side-switching bandits - as at that time "Ukraine" did not include any Black Sea coast -took over from Tsarists whose last gasp was attacking Petrograd from Estonia in 1922.
Thank you for producing a historically objective documentary. I’m so exhausted going through other channels with their blatant revisionism and neoliberal/fascist propaganda.
A few notable propaganda type errors here and there, however. One being the characterisation of the October Manifesto reforms as a stage managed charade by the emperor's court. Could not be further from the truth; Russian parliamentarianism, from 1905-1918, was actually further ahead in some aspects than in most Western European countries, during the same period. The economy also grew exponentially since the reforms were officially inaugurated. Most if not all of Lenin's grievances, were entirely ideologically based. Historical enemies of Russia simply used his many rantings as material for propaganda purposes, to discredit Russia.
@@Espiritu-o7x Where did these stupid numbers come from? Вy the beginning of 1917, there were about 90,000 priests of various denominations in Russia.
Lenin a Great revolutionary who changed the course of the Colonialist World . His work and ideals will be pushed ahead for a long span of time in the human history.
Presenter modulation and voice is very impressive. In total the documentary and the way of depiction highly regarded at heart. thanks for nice program.
I love your biography videos. Especially on the throughness of representing the people and the history explained. I wish you could make a video on Che Guvera.
@@robrekkit2132 Rob read the people you critique before you make silly comments. Just makes you seem like you don’t know what Marxism is & are just running around with ignorant right wing talking points.
This video was excellent...especially in his and Russian relationship to Germany in the early years. The one thing it did not go into enough i feel was to mention the role of Germany facilitating his return to Russia and rise to power during the war
No. I yhink it was clearly stated enough that Germany did provided Lenin and some of his comrades a "seaaled train caridge" to go to Russia and the reasons Germans had in renedring this sort of assistance. This is enough on this issue in this film.
About turn! March! Away with a talk-show. Silence, you speakers! Comrade Mauser, you have the floor. Down with the law which for us Adam and Eve have left. We'll ruin the jade of the past. Left! Left! Left!
I think one should also mention those three assassination attempts on Lenin in connection with his change of mind in regards to constituent assembly and hardening of his overall position early in 1918. Counter-revolution emerged immediately after 1917 and Lenin felt that communists had to harden their approach so that they were able to deal with it better and save revolutionary gains for Russian society. You have to tie assassination attempts to Lennin's change of position in regards to the form of governing. Of course, forming of Cheka was a mistake as this monster was impossible to delete after the end of civil war. But one cannot judge Lenin here too much as conditions in which he and communists found themselves after 1917 were extreme and clear and 100% right solution was impossible to see. Situation must resolve quickly during volatile post-revolution year if one wants to have success. Add to this lack of resources for new commmunist government in terms of dealing with emergence of counter-revolution reaction. I also think that well-functioning bourgeois capitalist democracy wasnt possible in Russia at that time. It would've meant opening yourself to developed western capitalism that would have turned Russia into appendage, another "Africa", source for the rich European capitalism. Nobody would've let Russia to develop calmly into developed industrial capitalism. Russia would've gotten into same situation it got in 1990s. But way worse. So Lenin's idea was correct and only way at that point. To develop Russia into industrial country via centralized state governing. Russia would've never developed so quickly into industrial nation via capitalist profit-making logic. And people shouldnt forget the hostility of all European and Western nations towards Russia in 1920s and 1930s. Capitalists didnt want to have socialist state so close to their borders. And in 1930s Stalin really thought that England would invade Soviet Union any minute hence his paranoia.
Lenin was not correct when he established a murderous regime. And Stalin didn't fear England in 1930s that had more problems on its own by then. But Stalin feared he could lose power internally and killed his opponents preemprively.
@@Achill101 Also who released 8- hour working day law first in history ( in USA only in 1938, in 1920-x striking miners were killed by US army) and made total electrification. Also women emancipation law
Not only assassination attempts but such notion as "white terror" and help of foreign countries to "whites" in form of war intervention ( 14 countries icludin USA , England Japan and so on) It was too hard time not to get hardened for communist headed by Lenin )
It was impressive and unbiased and full of knowledge documentary …. The narrator himself has a balanced personality really impressive step by step provision of knowledge and events…. Thumbs up for the great job.
Wonderful video!!!! 👍👍👍👍 I didn't know that Russia have royalty until I was in the fifth grade. They didn't teach much about the Russian Revolution either! I read the book, Nicolas and Alexandra and saw the movie version from that book when I was nine. Keep up the great work!❤️ Bravo!👏👏👏👏
yea there is way less information on the russian revolution in the west than on the german...there is a documentary every day on the nazi crimes..but not on the bolshewiks
@@vkrgfan looking at the conditions of the Russian state, I wonder if the Russians know any better than us... but I must admit that Russia did an incredible job faking itself as a great power and a military behemoth. A steel and marble facade held together by duct tape: hopefully they will start focusing more on improving their federation, other than their appearance... otherwise, they will either fall behind or fall completely.
Well, there was Russian Empire, and it’s an accurate way to call this country of that time. It’s unprofessional for historians to call it Russia. Because that was another country and another thing.
Best book on this period is "Red Victory " by W Bruce Lincoln , about the civil war of 1918 - 21 , my favourite book of modern history along with Shirers "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , Lincolns book is best for its character descriptions eg] Zinoviev and kamenev as "political Siamese twins" , the description of Dzerzhinsky is brilliant , the anecdote of the Llubyanka food enough to give one nightmares , " horse hair and hide with sticky floating globules all culminating in a foul evil smelling liquid " is what I can remember from reading it way back in 92 , also the discriptions of some of the horrible cossack attamans like Kalmykov and Ungern Sternburg not to mention the anarchist leader Makhno ,if anyone likes modern history books you will love this !
Another great book on this period is The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine. It's 1,200 pages long, but worth the read if this period interests you.
@@derekgossett8008 Russia kind of sucks because its 200k invasion corp came across 1mln mobilized Ukraniains highly motivated by first feeling of resentment due to invasion and secondly due to mania of myth of joining EU and NATo which is a myth Ukranians invented for themselves due to prolonged internal failures for the last 20 years and due to the trauma of Russia annexing Crimea in 2014...
@@googleuser2609 what Russia has done comparable to the US bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 200k civilians before that bombing Dresden buried and burned 20k alive over night and also bombing Vietnam with napalm. US will not be forgiven not Russia.
It is somewhat biased, presenting the early Soviet Russia in a more negative light than it was. They don't mention many progressive policies like women's suffrage and political representation of non-Russian nationalities - it was under Soviet rule and in line with Soviet policy when most of Ukraine's population actually began speaking Ukrainian, for expample. They praise the supposed 'free market' of the NEP, which wasn't actually a free market but a mixed system, and ignore the fact that under a later planned economy USSR was also one of the fastest growing countries. They overstate the totalitarianism, not mentioning the white terror, plundering of the countryside and authoritarianism of the White forces etc etc
I want to thank you for this very informative, balanced and insightful, documentary. I feel that absolutely, everyone utterly, ignorant of what true and proper Communism is all about, should, really, watch this and learn something for a change. Again; Thank You. 🙂🖐🏼
As im not Russian I dont know what others think but my greatest liking of russia is the Great classical music from the Great classical composer's of Russia and the novalist as i admire all classical music be it Russian or any other country
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful documentary with us. I've watched the documentaries before about this revolution, but this one was exceptional. Thanks again ❤.
I saw him in 2006. He is an remarkably good shape and when they pickled him they put him in a pinstripe suit and they shave his head he was in much better shape than chairman mao of china who i saw before i went to moscow
@nhelaaten6282 No. They had allies in the West who financially contributed, the bolsheviks also paid internal dues. In the case of Lenin himself, he also published articles in western newspapers.
Answer elicited by narrator at end ( “ If Lenin had lived longer might a more benign Soviet regime have emerged?” : depends upon what the imperialists did , and most likely the latter would have combinedly resolved to overthrow the regime, and would have more likely succeeded in doing so to a less dictatorial one. Moreover, history since has told us how avaricious many influential foreign eyes have been upon Russia, right up to the present historical moment as I write of January 2023.
You make a good point. It seems impossible to have a free, open or democratic sovereign nation if more powerful nations are actively undermining you internally and or externally. If only the U.N. had the power to protect the sovereign nations from CIA style imperialist intervention.
A coalition force called the White Army, put together by Brits and some of the other colonial muppets ruined the real revolution. They were all terrified the revolution would spread as Lenin had repeated over and over that a revolution isn't a revolution if restricted to just one country
Excellent exposition and narration. Thank you for such an interesting and balanced presentation of an intricate historical period and subject. We can never know how the USSR might have evolved had Lenin lived beyond 1924 but even if he had, Stalin would have been there, waiting, and all the time engaged in building up his power base. As ruthless as Lenin was, it is arguable that Stalin was more so, and would have, come what may, emerged victorious in any subsequent power struggle.
I know! It was my biggest mistake dealing with Stalin! Should've sent him off to Siberia! You know I was sent to Siberia for 3 years. I would send Stalin for 100!
@@nellyv1566 I need to build the soviet reunion first. Sadly my plan isn't going well. Wagner is dead and I am competing with Stalin and trotsky for power. Putin is gonna be easy to topple when it's time. But we're losing the war in Ukraine so not good timing.
@@LeninWokeUpHey, Lenin how are you still alive and still kicking? I wonder if that same guy who invaded the ussr fled to argentina is still alive as well and planning something on world conquest once again.
Lenin and Stalin both did a lot of necessary change but they also contributed to a top heavy system that was not very accountable to itself and was unable to remain as adaptive and beneficial as it had started out.
Splendid documentory video about Lenin. I read some works of Lenin, the State and Revolution. His logic,intelligence,wisdom impressed me, but I know little about his life until going through this video. I had to say that his ups and downs was as spectacular as Mao Zedong.
Had Lenin had more time to shape the Soviet Union it would have been more Titoist than Stalinist and perhaps maybe, just maybe more pragmatic like the Chinese Government today but he still built a top heavy system, which would have to change like the Chinese one did or it would have fallen like the Yugoslavian one did.
Any government that requires nearly absolute control of its people to suppress human nature to compete and improve their own personal status will be a problem. That was his downfall and misunderstanding. China is where it is today because it turned to capitalism
At the end of his life Lenin was primarily concerned about the emergence of a bureaucrac state not dissimilar to that which had been overthrown: 'we must now say that our apparatus is still alien through and through to us, and is a bourgeois and tsarist mechanism, which proved impossible to overcome in five years' ... (Lenin).
This is incorrect. Lenin did not want Tito’s style of government or bureaucratic control such as what became of the Soviet Union. Unlike Stalin and Tito, Lenin was an ideologue and theorist first, meaning his goal was towards his ideal of complete control of the country by democratic-based workers councils which is what he always declared. The party would be what he declared which would be the guide for the councils never had the chance to dissolve in Lenin’s lifetime due to the constant struggle against opportunists within his party, such as Stalin, and counter revolutionaries on the outside during the civil war. A full transfer of power to democratically elected councils was not materialistically possible during this time and central control was necessary to retain the revolution. This inability to transition to full council lead socialism was exemplified by the New Economic Program in which privatization was allowed due to immense economic strain and instability of the country. Transition to socialism was not possible due to the lack of surplus in the country, as explained by Marx to be a necessary component to that transition. The stage of “workers employed by the state” as explained in What is to Be Done and the State and Revolution was just a transitional stage in which the country would be able to obtain the economic stability and surplus necessary for socialism and then eventually communism to exist. This never happened while Lenin lived, and if he lived to maybe past WW2, then full council based democracy maybe would have been achieved in line with Lenin’s vision, but even this is unsure due to the constant external economic pressures of the time. This is really the only materialist perspective of the matter, if not you are working in a idealist framework
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I will when I can. I'm learning so much. You're doing something important
Britain did not join to aupport russian ally. They joined because Germany violated Belgian neutrality
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A sanitised version of the life, omitting a great deal that should have been included, for instance atrocities like mass killings, torture and famine.
FUN FACT: "One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd's luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 600.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing
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Interesting. I did not know that.
Very interesting. I am wondering Putin's true opinion on the communism in the US/Britain and the WEF plans for world government. It seems strange we are fighting Russia unless we are just in the process of redistributing wealth. I don't know much about him.
@@timeforchange3786 his views on the subjects tou mention are well documented? Are you being sarcastic or have you genuinely just not looked into his opinion on the matter?
Marx described how a proletarian state would arise, not what it would look like. Lenin didn't abandon Marxism, but he was forced to "wing it" as the Soviet State was breaking new ground by simply existing
Well said
He was greedy and power-hungry
Eh not really. Plenty of despotic totalitarian governments existed before the cccp
i think most people perceive marxism as a fully fleshed out ideology with political and governmental prescriptions due to the fact that stalin called his "marxism-leninism" when in fact marxism is nothing of the sort. it would be more accurately described as marxist thought or analysis.
@@ISO8LegionaireYeah, Stalin was a piece of work.
Hugely impressed by this clear, concise and well balanced program. Congratulations.
British documentaries tend to be of a high standard.
@@housinauthority5258 no they aren't
@@housinauthority5258If they're independent, then yes. BBC and other mainstream media now, not so much
This video should indicate that a great deal of the footage of Lenin doesn’t actually depict Lenin, but instead actors portraying him.
Let me say only one thing here. The video says that it was likely that Lenin did not know of his mother's Jewish heritage. But in a recent Dutch podcast I heard a professor of history say that Lenin was proud of his part-Jewish heritage, because he admired some intellectual Jews and had a high esteem of them. So my point is: so many things are said on the internet without any reliable source and many of those 'facts' or strong assumptions are not true at all.
he wasn't, this is (((nazi))) propaganda
at school we were told that Lenin's mother was half German, half Russian, Orthodox.
All of the RUssian leader were jewish and now in these days all of the royal families as well as they forced them due to the baby boom were descovered by a jew scientis and as usual blackmailed them all. now they are all over in the world in power YET other than PUTIN the KGB guy and Trump try to sortered out but is is too late because the US played out and betreaded PUTIN with the black and TRUMP Is betraded to fail by the Australians
Well 5 out of 21 of the top leaders in the early ussr were jewish, antisemitism was punishable by death (a lot of things were) and jews were the only ones who had a chance of leaving legally. To Israel for families’ unification. (I remember the joke - “a Jewish spouse is the means of locomotion”)
Now, if you asked to leave the Soviet paradise, it, of course, turned you into a traitor to the state, and, as one, you could lose your job (not working in the Soviet Union was against the law, punishable by a prison sentence). Your friends could be found guilty by association.
@5:20 the video mentions the writer Mikhail Bulgokov (sic) ... the reference likely is to the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), rather than to Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), who was obviously not a contemporary of Dostoyevsky or Kropotkin.
"The Master and Marguerite "
It couldn’t be bulgakov. He was born in 1891.
Actually Kropotkin & Bakunin were Russian anarchist stars and Nestor Makhno - was a Ukrainian one.
I searched them up wondering why they were mentioned. Apparently Bulgokov was not alive during the time.
I learned about Lenin in high school as my country was then ruled by a socialist and learning the Marxist-Leninist political theory in school was a requirement. I was always fascinated by his ideology. However, I didn’t know about his childhood and overall upbringing until today. This is a well organized & informative documentary! Thank you.
The two things that really helped me put this all into perspective were 1) 50% of the Russian population in 1905 was illiterate and worked in agriculture, 2) This whole revolution happened while the Soviets were being invaded on 14 fronts at the same time and won
There's countless books on his childhood, I'm surprised people seem not to know about this in 2023.
@@raddkahnengels Incorrect on both accounts.
@@raddkahnengels 1) Much more then 50%. 2) Revolution happend during WW I, during civil war the country was invaded but there were not do many fronts of course.
@@andreyevsv I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the 14 nation coalition that came in the help the whites during the civil war. That’s why he’s saying 14 fronts.
I read the history of Russia since I can remember- this video filled many gaps. Thanking you for a very informative and brilliantly compiled part of history!
The very title is misleading - it wasn't Russian Revolution, it was *Jawish" Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky were only 2 of many "*Jaws* and the Bolsheviks were funded by J-ish bankers. Marxism itself is J-ish and hardly anyone talks about it because you can't ever talk about J-s.
Me comments get removed for spelling the word in such context.. But guess what, this platform is also theirs, same as Meta platforms like FB.
A great narration, unadulterated history, no political bias, only facts.
Lol....ya right
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@@lindyswing4368which parts are inaccurate? I’m no major historian but it seemed pretty even handed to me. Very enjoyable documentary.
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@@lindyswing4368what? Do you prefer the right wing version which teaches that Lenin was actually a Jewish lizard man who wanted to make everyone gay and is the incarnation of Satan himself? Is that what you wanted to hear?
Extraordinary presentation. Many decades ago I pursued a graduate degree in Russian and Soviet history so I know a little something about Lenin. But your bio here expanded my knowledge. I would only add that there's a school of thought that Krupskaya had a significant hand in Lenin's final testament and I expected something on that issue. But overall I am deeply impressed with this superb presentation.
what's that meaning?
@@Whimsy7000 Its more accurate to name it The Testament of Lenin. I got Synder's point, but I just want to know whether it is propaganda or fact.
@david gallagher Politics is inherently right.
I read Animal Farm in high school back in 85' and as a requirement in English Composition assignment, I had to complete a 14-page thesis . . .
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MDH: You don't seem to be an ignoramus so what's your excuse?
This was an excellent documentary; step by step historical insight in to Lenin and what led to communism. Thank you!!👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
The documentary was good but you should do MORE RESEARCH. The Russian experience under communism is a helluve lot more than an hour long documentary. But I appreciate the videos author for bring this to light. It was WORSE than any of us in the west can imagine. Go read The gulag archipelago, by Alexander solzhenitsyn to get a true scope of the horror that was the USSR.
@@justinrichardson4456 If you are going to recommend a resource for studying a historical event, at least make sure that it's somewhat reliable. The gulag archipelago is at best a personal anecdote jumbled up with a collection of rumors such that it's impossible to distinguish what parts are personal experience and what parts come from rumors written by a fascist, at worst -and more likely-, fiction.
There was no “communism” in Russia. That’s what they hoped to achieve sometime. What they have built was a socialism. It was not a Russian but Jewish movement and eventually revolution supported by western bankers.
@@nemo2203 somebody who knows...
Love these profiles! The narrator is superb and the content is very interesting!
Cheers!
Fab doc. One issue: Bulgakov is mentioned early on but he did not start publishing until after WWI with his debut novel “The White Guard”
Bakunin, they meant I think
This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased.
It's almost as good as Europa the last battle.
@@dudebro3250except this documentary actually tells you the truth.
This will, undoubtedly, be excellent
And so it was!
Resist the temptation to comment until you KNOW how excellent the video is 😅
Finally!!!! I was waiting for you guys to release a video on Lenin. Thank you so much!
Our pleasure!
More than a million people were killed for political or religious reasons during what is known as the Red Terror, between 1918 and 1922, the harshest time of Lenin's dictatorship. Many more were butchered & slaughtered on the orders of the satanic communist scumbag right up until his death is 1924.
It is
They did Stalin, makes sense that this was coming, bless.
"[As Tsar Alexander] approached, the police arrested three young People's Will terrorists carrying bombs to perpetrate a second 1 March outrage. Five terrorists were hanged, including their bomb-maker, Alexander Ulyanov, aged nineteen, whose execution had a decisive influence on his younger brother, Vladimir, the future Lenin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 470.
"Достучаться до справедливости в ворота дворцов можно только прикладами винтовок" В.И Ленин
枪杆子里出政权！
@@user_tom The gun is instant, the pen kills in time.
-some guy
@@user_tomall laws are backed by the barrel of a gun at best. Said maybe by someone other than me
"communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
~mAo
"МНОГОКРАТНО ПОВТОРЕННАЯ ЛОЖЬ СТАНОВИТСЯ ПОХОЖЕЙ НА ПРАВДУ" В.И Ленин, а позже эту ленинскую фразу любил цитировать Геббельс
the first Soviet Constitution of 1918 was adopted;
instead of a unitary state, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) appeared;
the capital was moved from Petrograd to Moscow;
the abolition of estates, the Soviet man became a citizen of the republic;
introduction of the Western European calendar (Gregorian);
established 8-hour working day;
a regulation on the social security of the elderly and disabled was adopted;
laws have been passed to protect women's and child labor;
free education and free medicine were proclaimed;
the church is separated from the state and the school;
nationalization of banks, industry, railway transport, sea and river ports;
land socialization.
I wish it was just that unfortunately capitalism is nazism...😮😊
Women's suffrage has been introduced
Usually when there is a documentary about Lenin it fails to be objective and it is strongly biased against Lenin. This doc is an exception. It does present a balanced and accurate veiw.
Ленин знал отлично 24 языка
Why would you want a mass murdering nut job in good light?
Well..... its kind of difficult to look at the good side of someone who was directly responsible for the extermination of millions of human beings.
@johnstudd4245 Aren't you confusing Lenin and Stalin? Also ,the White Russians killed a lot of people too! And don't forget Czar Nicholas.
@@johnstudd4245Global capitalist imperialism kills hundreds of thousands every day through starvation or American bombs but libs never want to talk about that.
Yay!!! Russian history starting! Always been fascinated with soviet Russia
Hey same! Especially Soviet military history. Now I’m not a supporter of communism or socialism but it is fascinating to hear in documentaries
@@jonfranks6902 'Now I'm not a supporter of'....
But you used to be? Lol
USSR first demokratik peopl Repablik !
@@АсхатИлямбиев-г5у Nonsense. There were plenty of other slave societies prior to yours
@@АсхатИлямбиев-г5у please learn history. Even Rome was republic prior to becoming Roman empire
Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson. This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased..
предвзятая, и ещё как.
It seems that Lenin was less rabidly idealistic and more pragmatic in his latter years, especially compared to Stalin; a bit less power hungry as well. I imagine if Lenin had lived to rule for another 10-20 years, the Soviet Union may have developed quite a bit differently and history could look quite different.
"a bit less power hungry as well." More like, a LOT less power hungry.
What if JFK didn’t get assassinated? What if Hitler was killed during WW1 ? What if Russia fired a nuclear missile at Florida ? Etc etc
Whataboutism is always pointless, because it’s never ending .
Stalin was faced with upcoming war, and he new it. It was his burden to prepare SU for the war, and he has done good. Stalin and Lenin was pragmatic because Marxism means dialectical materialism, it is about since and not about ideas. Idealistic is to believe in capitalism that is sentenced to devore itself.
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@@andreyevsv Stalinist
It's important to know what happened in history, thank you very much for presenting!
Russian history is very engrossing. Thank you for this narration.
Россия повлияла и продолжает влиять на развитие всего Мира.
@@ЕленаВасильева-н7щda ladno)))
Great documentary. It’s impressive Russia didn’t completely lose its sovereignty after what it went though in 1917 and 1918.
Exactly, and such danger is why Lenin launched the Bolshevik governmental takeover earlier than the time he expected for a successful capitalist stage, per Marx. Therefore, he skipped that stage and went straight to socialism. Lenin had feared that if the ill-equipped Russian Army would not be a defensive match against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary) and all Russian lands would belong to the Central Powers.
It is good to see a documentary on UA-cam that doesn't show the Lenin and the Communist as bloodthirsty monsters, but gives a more or less impartial portrayal of Lenin and the Communists. Let us not forget that under the Communists, the Russian life expectancy, which was a medieval 30 years before the Communists came to power, matched the West at 65 years by 1960. The Communists moved their country forward by centuries in a mere several decades.
True Communist isuch better than the sold out or should I say whored out capitalism...I am now a communist..I welcome with very wide open arms..too.😮I've had my belly full of republican dogmatic capitalism...fuck texas too.
Tbf, that is something no one come close to the development ussr did(without imperialism/colonialism), china is the only one that can be compared
@@imnobd8757and the west...
Maybe you missed the part about the Red Terror?
I never said Lenin was an angel. The "Red Terror" was unleashed against the enemies of the State onhy when Lenin was nearly killed in an assassination attempt in 1919. Did you miss THAT part?@@alb7869
Excellent documentary - I learned so much. Thank you.
This is as productive as it can get. Thanks a lot!
excellent and very informative documentary. thanks for your effort..!
Thank you very much for such well put together documentary
I agree
thanks People Profiles
The narrator is top shelf 🍸
@ThePeopleProfiles-Text I’m trying but I can’t get through. Says not able to deliver
This has been FABULOUS! Now I go from Lenin to Trotsky to Marx… what a Luxury! My next suggestions are for Jimi Hendrix and Marshal Tito thnx 🌻
This is a Very helpful summary of Ulanov's development in the sociopolitical context of his times--and, very well presented. Thanks
Тhat's right - Ulyanov, not Ulanov.
These documentary presentations are indispensable. Thank you so much.
thank you, the summing up at the end was impressive
I don’t think this is as objective and unbiased as many have suggested in the comments, but it’s still useful/informative. Thank you.
Very clearly biased against Lenin, but still more "neutral" than most western bourgeois documentaries. Giving Lenin a fair opinion by putting his historical role and the context of tsarism
@@rimaq_Lenin is one of the most evil humans who ever walked on this earth. There is nothing to be un-biased about. The man was the devil.
Thank you for sharing and posting this informative video that explains clearly a complicated subject.
Excellent. It has given me both an intellectual and biographical ground of Lenin. Thanks.
43:54 "a new Ukrainian state" requires the extreme clarification that it was only the Lwow/Gallicia/Volynhia region that was ruled by the self declared state in Lwow. When Germany collapsed it became a very venal anti-Jewish anti-Russian proto Nazi state that had only 13% or so literacy. There were competing and even more vicious racist bandit states in Kiev (Petlura) and Zaporozyhe (the so called anarchists who were basically rapists and marauders), plus Tsarists still in Rostov whose first move was to attack northwest to reconnect with Europe.
The Lwow proto-Nazis were defeated by Poland. The others by the Tsarists. Then the Red Ukraine forces from Kharkov and the side-switching bandits - as at that time "Ukraine" did not include any Black Sea coast -took over from Tsarists whose last gasp was attacking Petrograd from Estonia in 1922.
The self-declared 'historians' of YT vids always provide for a good laugh,
This has to be one of the best and most importantly comprehensive documentations I have seen in quite awhile. Thank You.
very good and interesting presentation .
Thanks
I'm thankful for this historical history,I hope you guys never stop posting all of this historical facts
Thank you for producing a historically objective documentary. I’m so exhausted going through other channels with their blatant revisionism and neoliberal/fascist propaganda.
A few notable propaganda type errors here and there, however. One being the characterisation of the October Manifesto reforms as a stage managed charade by the emperor's court. Could not be further from the truth; Russian parliamentarianism, from 1905-1918, was actually further ahead in some aspects than in most Western European countries, during the same period. The economy also grew exponentially since the reforms were officially inaugurated. Most if not all of Lenin's grievances, were entirely ideologically based. Historical enemies of Russia simply used his many rantings as material for propaganda purposes, to discredit Russia.
I hear ya. Often though 1 man's objectivity is another man's propaganda. Still, one can usually find the presentation minus the bias.
@@Espiritu-o7x lol did you get that from the Black Book of Communism?
@@Espiritu-o7x Where did these stupid numbers come from? Вy the beginning of 1917, there were about 90,000 priests of various denominations in Russia.
I mean communism is fascist
Lenin a Great revolutionary who changed the course of the Colonialist World . His work and ideals will be pushed ahead for a long span of time in the human history.
Child murderer
I hope not history no longer requires his ideals.
Время покажет
Sooo much to learn from all this, thank you
Well, here goes my weekend. Will be watching your videos
a detailed and comprehensive documentary, having all the necessary factors one needs to study Lenin as a revolutionary and theorist.
I'd love to see a video on Viriato or Henry the Navigator. Def have a few Portuguese individuals that would be great to watch!
Yes, I would watch a video about Henry the Navigator.
Very well done!
I agree
These videos give a good escape from the politics and economics of today
You mean the ones that look exactly like the ones in the video?! Because it's not just coming, it's here.
Presenter modulation and voice is very impressive. In total the documentary and the way of depiction highly regarded at heart. thanks for nice program.
Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson
I love your biography videos. Especially on the throughness of representing the people and the history explained. I wish you could make a video on Che Guvera.
Che' Guevara- homophobic Marxist thug !
The Darling of the contemporary LGTBQ community!
How ironic. . .
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Thanks so much for this wonderful and exceptionally well done documentary on Lenin.
This was a very interesting documentary. I knew nothing about Lenin. Thank you for posting.
One of the most informative docs I've seen. Keep it up.
Can you do one about Trotsky? He was quite interesting.
There's one from about a year ago
@@dablarts9384 thanks
Quite interesting? He was followed like a demi god. The cultural Marxism of today was learnt at his knee
@@robrekkit2132 Cultural Marxism isn't a thing Rob
@@robrekkit2132 Rob read the people you critique before you make silly comments. Just makes you seem like you don’t know what Marxism is & are just running around with ignorant right wing talking points.
Splendid narrative. Greatings from Zaragoza- Spain
I’m so 😊
This video was excellent...especially in his and Russian relationship to Germany in the early years. The one thing it did not go into enough i feel was to mention the role of Germany facilitating his return to Russia and rise to power during the war
No. I yhink it was clearly stated enough that Germany did provided Lenin and some of his comrades a "seaaled train caridge" to go to Russia and the reasons Germans had in renedring this sort of assistance. This is enough on this issue in this film.
Good point by a Jewish financier
Well they generally keep these videos to an hour. Considering the length it was pretty good
@@seanohare5488 Exactly. And lets not forget the Jewish financiers that operated right out of good old America to facilitate much of this movement
About turn! March!
Away with a talk-show.
Silence, you speakers!
Comrade Mauser,
you
have the floor.
Down with the law which for us
Adam and Eve have left.
We'll ruin the jade of the past.
Left!
Left!
Left!
I think one should also mention those three assassination attempts on Lenin in connection with his change of mind in regards to constituent assembly and hardening of his overall position early in 1918. Counter-revolution emerged immediately after 1917 and Lenin felt that communists had to harden their approach so that they were able to deal with it better and save revolutionary gains for Russian society. You have to tie assassination attempts to Lennin's change of position in regards to the form of governing. Of course, forming of Cheka was a mistake as this monster was impossible to delete after the end of civil war. But one cannot judge Lenin here too much as conditions in which he and communists found themselves after 1917 were extreme and clear and 100% right solution was impossible to see. Situation must resolve quickly during volatile post-revolution year if one wants to have success. Add to this lack of resources for new commmunist government in terms of dealing with emergence of counter-revolution reaction.
I also think that well-functioning bourgeois capitalist democracy wasnt possible in Russia at that time. It would've meant opening yourself to developed western capitalism that would have turned Russia into appendage, another "Africa", source for the rich European capitalism. Nobody would've let Russia to develop calmly into developed industrial capitalism. Russia would've gotten into same situation it got in 1990s. But way worse. So Lenin's idea was correct and only way at that point. To develop Russia into industrial country via centralized state governing. Russia would've never developed so quickly into industrial nation via capitalist profit-making logic. And people shouldnt forget the hostility of all European and Western nations towards Russia in 1920s and 1930s. Capitalists didnt want to have socialist state so close to their borders. And in 1930s Stalin really thought that England would invade Soviet Union any minute hence his paranoia.
Lenin was not correct when he established a murderous regime. And Stalin didn't fear England in 1930s that had more problems on its own by then. But Stalin feared he could lose power internally and killed his opponents preemprively.
@@Achill101 Also who released 8- hour working day law first in history ( in USA only in 1938, in 1920-x striking miners were killed by US army) and made total electrification. Also women emancipation law
Not only assassination attempts but such notion as "white terror" and help of foreign countries to "whites" in form of war intervention ( 14 countries icludin USA , England Japan and so on) It was too hard time not to get hardened for communist headed by Lenin )
@@alexeyb6129 as 8 horas diárias foi primeiro no Uruguai. Mas todas a beneces sociais foram advindas do marxismo leninismo.
@@alexeyb6129 Communism "emancipated" millions of people...via a bullet in the back of the head.
It was impressive and unbiased and full of knowledge documentary …. The narrator himself has a balanced personality really impressive step by step provision of knowledge and events…. Thumbs up for the great job.
Excellent and objective.
The people who did this documentary should teach how to do them to Deutsche Welle and BBC. This was an unbiased documentary.
Wonderful video!!!! 👍👍👍👍 I didn't know that Russia have royalty until I was in the fifth grade. They didn't teach much about the Russian Revolution either! I read the book, Nicolas and Alexandra and saw the movie version from that book when I was nine. Keep up the great work!❤️ Bravo!👏👏👏👏
yea there is way less information on the russian revolution in the west than on the german...there is a documentary every day on the nazi crimes..but not on the bolshewiks
Most Westerners don’t know much about Russia, that’s why you make a lot of ignorant statements.
@@vkrgfan even russians did the same😃
@@vkrgfan looking at the conditions of the Russian state, I wonder if the Russians know any better than us... but I must admit that Russia did an incredible job faking itself as a great power and a military behemoth. A steel and marble facade held together by duct tape: hopefully they will start focusing more on improving their federation, other than their appearance... otherwise, they will either fall behind or fall completely.
Well, there was Russian Empire, and it’s an accurate way to call this country of that time. It’s unprofessional for historians to call it Russia. Because that was another country and another thing.
Thank you very much. It was helpful. 😊
Best book on this period is "Red Victory " by W Bruce Lincoln , about the civil war of 1918 - 21 , my favourite book of modern history along with Shirers "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , Lincolns book is best for its character descriptions eg] Zinoviev and kamenev as "political Siamese twins" , the description of Dzerzhinsky is brilliant , the anecdote of the Llubyanka food enough to give one nightmares , " horse hair and hide with sticky floating globules all culminating in a foul evil smelling liquid " is what I can remember from reading it way back in 92 , also the discriptions of some of the horrible cossack attamans like Kalmykov and Ungern Sternburg not to mention the anarchist leader Makhno ,if anyone likes modern history books you will love this !
Your name is Churchill lol you couldn't make it up
Are you related to Alexandra Churchill, the historian?
Are you related to Churchill the dog in the Churchill insurance ads ?
Animal Farm, no?
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Another great book on this period is The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine. It's 1,200 pages long, but worth the read if this period interests you.
Hello from Moscow! History will not forgive us if we do not act now," - very appropriate with regard to Russia-Ukraine relations and NATO expansion.
Russia isn’t doing a very good job taking Ukraine, their army kind of sucks if they can’t take over that whole country by now.
@@derekgossett8008 Russia kind of sucks because its 200k invasion corp came across 1mln mobilized Ukraniains highly motivated by first feeling of resentment due to invasion and secondly due to mania of myth of joining EU and NATo which is a myth Ukranians invented for themselves due to prolonged internal failures for the last 20 years and due to the trauma of Russia annexing Crimea in 2014...
Too late! What you have done to stop the war? Nothing. Too late. Russia will not be forgiven.
Just like how the west couldn’t take Vietnam, or Afghanistan over 20+ years?
@@googleuser2609 what Russia has done comparable to the US bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 200k civilians before that bombing Dresden buried and burned 20k alive over night and also bombing Vietnam with napalm. US will not be forgiven not Russia.
Yea, this was really informative and unbiased. Hats off.
what bias could there be? there are historical facts. they can either state them or ignore them.
@@RunninUpThatHillh there is always a bias. If you don't agree then you cannot detect it.
Both sides are biased but we should be aware of it.
@@RunninUpThatHillh you could show what people thought of him and only show his critics
It is somewhat biased, presenting the early Soviet Russia in a more negative light than it was. They don't mention many progressive policies like women's suffrage and political representation of non-Russian nationalities - it was under Soviet rule and in line with Soviet policy when most of Ukraine's population actually began speaking Ukrainian, for expample. They praise the supposed 'free market' of the NEP, which wasn't actually a free market but a mixed system, and ignore the fact that under a later planned economy USSR was also one of the fastest growing countries. They overstate the totalitarianism, not mentioning the white terror, plundering of the countryside and authoritarianism of the White forces etc etc
@@Art-ey7xjI get the impression the bias is yours
This documentary is a proof of the balanced standpoint of the creators. I congratulate them.
I'm addicted to Soviet docs❤❤❤
Some mistake in video - 5:24 Mikhail Bulgakov was born in 1891, 10 years after death of Dostoevsky.
I want to thank you for this very informative, balanced and insightful, documentary. I feel that absolutely, everyone utterly, ignorant of what true and proper Communism is all about, should, really, watch this and learn something for a change. Again; Thank You. 🙂🖐🏼
"true and proper Communism" = 100+ million dead in the 20th century. HTH :)
WHAT AN HISTORICAL HEROIC, ICONIC MAN!!!! A LEGEND!!!
Yeah, many leftists are dreaming about appearing another Lenin these days.
As im not Russian I dont know what others think but my greatest liking of russia is the Great classical music from the Great classical composer's of Russia and the novalist as i admire all classical music be it Russian or any other country
Very educational and informative
This story is excellent, thanks for your uploading 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful documentary with us.
I've watched the documentaries before about this revolution, but this one was exceptional.
Thanks again ❤.
I saw him in 2006. He is an remarkably good shape and when they pickled him they put him in a pinstripe suit and they shave his head he was in much better shape than chairman mao of china who i saw before i went to moscow
how did Lenin finance his travels and stays abroad ?
The Bolsheviks had dues paying membership. The members sacrificed what they had to build the Party, including paying wages to leaders like Lenin.
@@Zayden. They also had allies in the West who financially contributed.
@@Whimsy7000 They also had allies in the West who financially contributed.
@nhelaaten6282 No. They had allies in the West who financially contributed, the bolsheviks also paid internal dues. In the case of Lenin himself, he also published articles in western newspapers.
@nhelaaten6282 Yes, but how much of those heists went to financing individual revolutionaries is up for debate.
Answer elicited by narrator at end ( “ If Lenin had lived longer might a more benign Soviet regime have emerged?” : depends upon what the imperialists did , and most likely the latter would have combinedly resolved to overthrow the regime, and would have more likely succeeded in doing so to a less dictatorial one. Moreover, history since has told us how avaricious many influential foreign eyes have been upon Russia, right up to the present historical moment as I write of January 2023.
You make a good point. It seems impossible to have a free, open or democratic sovereign nation if more powerful nations are actively undermining you internally and or externally. If only the U.N. had the power to protect the sovereign nations from CIA style imperialist intervention.
English is not your first language, is it?
@@owenlindkvist5355 He writes it better than you, that's for sure. Do yourself a favor and drop the smug attitude.
A coalition force called the White Army, put together by Brits and some of the other colonial muppets ruined the real revolution.
They were all terrified the revolution would spread as Lenin had repeated over and over that a revolution isn't a revolution if restricted to just one country
@@owenlindkvist5355thinking before typing is not your first instinct is it?
Excellent exposition and narration. Thank you for such an interesting and balanced presentation of an intricate historical period and subject. We can never know how the USSR might have evolved had Lenin lived beyond 1924 but even if he had, Stalin would have been there, waiting, and all the time engaged in building up his power base. As ruthless as Lenin was, it is arguable that Stalin was more so, and would have, come what may, emerged victorious in any subsequent power struggle.
I know!
It was my biggest mistake dealing with Stalin!
Should've sent him off to Siberia!
You know I was sent to Siberia for 3 years. I would send Stalin for 100!
Ruthless Lenin? This is a stereotype that has been imposed on you. Get rid of it.
@@nellyv1566 I need to build the soviet reunion first.
Sadly my plan isn't going well.
Wagner is dead and I am competing with Stalin and trotsky for power. Putin is gonna be easy to topple when it's time. But we're losing the war in Ukraine so not good timing.
@@LeninWokeUpHey, Lenin how are you still alive and still kicking?
I wonder if that same guy who invaded the ussr fled to argentina is still alive as well and planning something on world conquest once again.
@@AverageUsernames i was so well preserved in red square they came up with a cure to my ailments and it worked.
Lenin and Stalin both did a lot of necessary change but they also contributed to a top heavy system that was not very accountable to itself and was unable to remain as adaptive and beneficial as it had started out.
@@martinwhite5076 Yes he did all that and more. He also reinforced the top down structure of the USSR that led to its downfall.
@@martinwhite5076 He defeated fascism in the Europe and practiced it in his own country.
These people were Jews, not even Russian. They stole and murdered everything. He wasn't a nice guy.
Great documentary. The US with 2 parties with one ideology is no different to 'one party' in old Soviet Union?
I wouldn't go quite that far, but yeah, it's somewhat similar.
Хороший вопрос! 👍🙂
So far off the mark it’s laughable 😂
Surprised you guys didn't discuss Lenin's though with Romanovs exacution
Lol
Splendid documentory video about Lenin. I read some works of Lenin, the State and Revolution. His logic,intelligence,wisdom impressed me, but I know little about his life until going through this video. I had to say that his ups and downs was as spectacular as Mao Zedong.
Could you please produce a documentary about mass murderer Winston Churchill? Not many are aware of his crimes against humanity.
Britains bloody warmongerer
My hero!
Had Lenin had more time to shape the Soviet Union it would have been more Titoist than Stalinist and perhaps maybe, just maybe more pragmatic like the Chinese Government today but he still built a top heavy system, which would have to change like the Chinese one did or it would have fallen like the Yugoslavian one did.
Any government that requires nearly absolute control of its people to suppress human nature to compete and improve their own personal status will be a problem. That was his downfall and misunderstanding. China is where it is today because it turned to capitalism
At the end of his life Lenin was primarily concerned about the emergence of a bureaucrac state not dissimilar to that which had been overthrown: 'we must now say that our apparatus is still alien through and through to us, and is a bourgeois and tsarist mechanism, which proved impossible to overcome in five years' ... (Lenin).
@@hazelwray4184 He had his regrets it seems. He wasn't a saint but he wasn't a monster either.
This is incorrect. Lenin did not want Tito’s style of government or bureaucratic control such as what became of the Soviet Union. Unlike Stalin and Tito, Lenin was an ideologue and theorist first, meaning his goal was towards his ideal of complete control of the country by democratic-based workers councils which is what he always declared. The party would be what he declared which would be the guide for the councils never had the chance to dissolve in Lenin’s lifetime due to the constant struggle against opportunists within his party, such as Stalin, and counter revolutionaries on the outside during the civil war. A full transfer of power to democratically elected councils was not materialistically possible during this time and central control was necessary to retain the revolution. This inability to transition to full council lead socialism was exemplified by the New Economic Program in which privatization was allowed due to immense economic strain and instability of the country. Transition to socialism was not possible due to the lack of surplus in the country, as explained by Marx to be a necessary component to that transition. The stage of “workers employed by the state” as explained in What is to Be Done and the State and Revolution was just a transitional stage in which the country would be able to obtain the economic stability and surplus necessary for socialism and then eventually communism to exist. This never happened while Lenin lived, and if he lived to maybe past WW2, then full council based democracy maybe would have been achieved in line with Lenin’s vision, but even this is unsure due to the constant external economic pressures of the time. This is really the only materialist perspective of the matter, if not you are working in a idealist framework
@@hrevo6490 Lenin and Tito had more in common than Stalin I think.
I feel bad for the horses.
They didn't go to wasre
Great video i learned so much!!!!!
Lenin needs to be read. Nowhere is he more revealed than in his works.
Great video! Just wondering if you'd consider making videos of Kim Il-sung and/or Kim Jong-il at some point.
Youre' simply the best !!!!
Были ли в какой-то стране революционеры, которые не жили какое-то время в Лондоне?
Mao Zedong
@@adi2.054I think he was there too
And you speak something very interesting for history❤
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Great stuff
Made my week