The Rest Is History: Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union
The Rest Is Politics
Goalhanger
4.4 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In our most recent episode, Alastair mentioned our sister podcast, The Rest Is History, and its recent mini-series on the Soviet Union, its fall, Putin's early life and his subsequent rise to power.
Here's the first episode of the series on Brezhnev, Putin's formative years, his early KGB career and Gorbachev's descent into chaos.
Was Putin a nationalist or a communist? What changed from Brezhnev to Gorbachev? What was Putin doing in East Germany during the Soviet twilight years?
Find the next episode in the series here:
Or search 'The Rest Is History' wherever you get your podcasts.
See you on Wednesday for our next episode of 'The Rest Is Politics'.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Now, before we get started today, a bit of |
| 0:02.2 | moderately exciting news, I hope. We've got our final live show |
| 0:05.6 | of the year, next Tuesday, December 13 at a sold out Royal Alba Hall, |
| 0:11.5 | which is a bit weird, frankly. It's going to be our kind of end of the year review, |
| 0:15.9 | looking back at the craziest year in British politics, probably since last |
| 0:20.0 | year, frankly. And we know that quite a lot of you missed out on tickets, |
| 0:24.0 | and we're very sorry about that, and also that some of you who've got tickets |
| 0:28.0 | may not be able to make it to London, I've had a few messages like that |
| 0:31.6 | because of the train struts, etc. So we are going to make a live stream of the |
| 0:36.4 | event available exclusively to subscribers to the restus politics plus. |
| 0:42.8 | And if you may know, that's where you can sign up to avoid adverts and |
| 0:48.1 | get access to events and all sorts of other stuff. So just go to |
| 0:52.4 | www.therestuspolitics.com to sign up. It will not break the bank even in this |
| 0:58.8 | cost of living crisis. So we started 8pm next Tuesday night. |
| 1:02.8 | Join Royal Me live on stage as we try to cram 2022 into a couple of hours. |
| 1:09.5 | That's www.therestuspolitics.com. Sign up now and we'll send out the link |
| 1:15.6 | next Tuesday night. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:23.6 | This is an advertisement from BetterHelp therapy online. Now as we've discussed |
| 1:27.3 | on the restus politics, I try to be as open and frank as possible when I'm |
| 1:30.3 | talking about mental health. And there've been plenty of times in my life when |
| 1:33.4 | I found it hard to figure things out of myself and needed somebody in my |
| 1:36.2 | corner to help me work things through. And sometimes you do need a therapist to |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Goalhanger, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Goalhanger and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.