Russian Civil War with Antony Beevor

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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*Content Warning - This episode contains references to rape and suicide*

The Russian Civil War was a brutal episode in the rise of Bolshevik Russia. Taking place between 1917 and 1922 (after the perhaps better known, Russian Revolution) it pitted the Communist Red Army, led by Vladimir Lenin, against a loose coalition of imperialists known as the White Army. It led to five years of chaos, tumult and tragedy, and changed global history and politics as we know it today.

In today’s episode, James travelled to the Three Johns Pub in London - the alleged location of a fractious anti-tsarist meeting between Lenin and Trotsky - to find out more about this crucial and chaotic period in Russian history. Joined by military history heavyweight Sir Antony Beevor, author of the Russia, Revolution and Civil War: 1917-1921, to look at this chaotic conflict, they discuss why the Red Army came out on top, how the conflict birthed the infamous gulags, and the legacy of the war on Russia’s military today.

Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. The Assistant Producer was Annie Coloe. Edited by Joseph Knight.

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0:00.0	The Russian Revolution in 1917 led to the fall of a weak Tsar, Nicholas II, and the rise of
0:09.4	Bolshevism. But this rise was not uncontested, What's often overlooked or amalgamated with the history of the Russian Revolution
0:16.6	is the brutal Russian Civil War that followed as the nation descended into chaos.
0:21.6	I'm your host, James Patton Rogers. This is warfare and to find out more about
0:25.8	this crucial period in Russian history I traveled to the Three Johns pub in
0:30.0	London England. Why here? Well it was here in this very pub that Lennon and Trotsky
0:35.2	allegedly met to sow the seeds of the Tsar's demise. While at the three Johns, I just
0:40.5	so happened to meet up with a heavyweight of the history world, Sir Anthony Beaver.
0:44.3	Anthony is the author of a new book, Russia, Revolution and Civil War, 1917 to 1921.
0:50.8	And it's through his cutting edge research that we learn just how the newly formed
0:54.9	Red Army overcame the whites. Now I know you're going to love this one so we
0:59.0	recorded it for the history hit YouTube channel. This means if you want to
1:01.9	watch me and Anthony discuss this
1:03.2	incredibly important history then simply head over to the history hit YouTube and
1:07.8	watch for free. But now here is Sir Anthony Beaver on the Russian Civil War.
1:12.4	Enjoy. Anthony we are here at the three Johns in London in Islington, the place where it is
1:29.1	alleged that Lenin stood up in front of the Mensheix and instead of arguing for a peaceful resolution,
1:35.6	argued for one that would be purely violent, a violent way to overthrow the Tsar.
1:40.8	And this he did, we had the Russian Revolution Revolution but just as soon as that ended we moved
1:45.9	through to the Civil War period the Russian Civil War and this was between the Reds the
1:50.9	Bolsheviks and the Whites.
1:53.0	But I've always been slightly confused.
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