Russia: Everything You Know About The Russian Revolution is Wrong - Russian Journalist Mikhail Zygar on 1917, History, Putin, Democracy and More

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Everything you know about the Russian Revolution is wrong, and understanding that is the key to understanding today's Russia as well. A very interesting conversation with Mikhail Zygar, Editor in Chief of the TV Dozhd and the Author of All the Kremlin's Men. He joins us to speak about his book The Empire Must Die - Russia's Revolutionary Collapse. We talk Russia 1917 and the revolution before the Bolsheviks. We also talk Russia 2017 and Putin, America, democracy, struggle and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:04.0	Hi, I'm Mike Troy, host of the American Revolution Podcast on the Airwave Media Network.
0:10.0	This podcast is the origin story of the United States, how we went from colonies ruled by a king to the Democratic Republic that we have today.
0:19.0	The American Revolution podcast tells the story of the revolution from beginning to end. The Revolution
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0:34.4	It's very important to address that after the last Emperor Nicholas II abdicated,
0:40.8	there was a provisional government formed in Russia and it was very
0:44.6	influenced by the ideas of Tolstoy by the ideas of nonviolent resistance.
0:50.3	You were the head of an independent TV network that's not something very common as I understand it in today's Russia.
1:00.0	We have a great culture and great history of fight for freedom and human rights and we can be proud of.
1:09.0	Our civil society had some really impressive victories and finally in in a year
1:15.9	1991 that was Russian people who took over. Michael Zagar is a Russian journalist, writer, and filmmaker and the founding editor-in-chief of the
1:48.0	only Russian independent TV news channel Doshid TV or TV Reign. He is the author of The Empire Must Die,
1:56.6	Russia's Revolutionary Collapse 1900 to 1917.
2:02.1	And he joins me on the program now.
2:04.1	Michael thanks for coming on.
2:06.1	Thank you for hang me.
2:07.6	It is always fascinating.
2:10.0	America is always fascinated by Russia. It's a country as vast as our own.
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