The Russian Revolution

What Hacker News says

1. ThrowMeDown01Feb 2018
   Or, for those who prefer to listen to a lecture:

   Lenin and the Russian Revolution - Professor Catherine Merridale FBA -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRIzW7A9lhs&feature=youtu.be

   The Fate of the October Revolution Under Stalin - Professor Bob Service -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5eP_HoNUx8

   If you only want to listen to one choose the first one, it's really good.

   thread
2. aaron-leboAug 2017
   It's not low quantity but it seems very filtered. Recently finished reading:

   https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Revolution-New-History-ebook/...

   The Russian revolution was co-opted by Lenin and the Bolsheviks who were funded by the German foreign office and more than anything else were unscrupulous about who they murdered. 25 million people were dead by the end of the revolution (early 20s).

   There's not so much as a hint of that just scanning though the titles.

   Show morethread
3. anovikovJan 2014
   Correct, the people are not there to replace personalities, they are to destroy the whole political system making resurrection of successive corrupt governments impossible. So 'opposition leaders' are not really leaders of Maidan, people don't give much respect to them, it is more like Muslim Brothers who rode the protest wave in Egypt to come into power, not being protest leaders in the first place. Much like Lenin who didn't organize Russian Revolution either, only riding its wave into power. I hope this time will be different.
   Show morethread