Revolutions

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Minneapolis Oct 11: Magers and Quinn

Naperville Oct 12: Anderson's Bookshop

Madison/Verona Oct 13: Kismet Books

Milwaukee Oct 14: Boswells Book Company

Pasadena Oct 27: Vromans Bookstore

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Minneapolis: Magers and Quinn

Chicago: Anderson's Bookshop

Madison: Kismet Books

Milwaukee: Boswells Book Company

Not a political plot. A sitcom plot.

 

When you come at the king, best not miss.

 

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, folks.

 

April 1917 reminds us sometimes foreign affairs DO matter in domestic politics.

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The H2W related podcast appearances I mentioned:

Based on a True Story with Dan LeFebvre. Great chat about Lafayette in film and TV. KPFA's Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich. This one is a video! Tides of History with Patrick Wyman. More of me and Patrick being me and Patrick. So good, informative, and fun. My History Can Beat Up Your Politics One of the O.G. podcasts. Since 2006!

Wherein the Bolsheviks call for an Uber.

The New Yorker Article by Adam Gopnick

The New Republic Article by David Klion (Hi David!)

 CBS This Morning Segment Look ma I'm on the tee-vee.

The February Revolution succeeded! Everything is great now!

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Aug 20 Politics and Prose with Jamelle Bouie

Aug 23 Midtown Scholar with Ben Rhodes

Aug 24 The Strand with Alexis Coe

Aug 31 Harvard Bookstore with Patrick Wyman.

The Duma is about to get a new roommate: The Petrograd Soviet

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Aug 20 Politics and Prose with Jamelle Bouie

Aug 23 Midtown Scholar with Ben Rhodes

Aug 24 The Strand with Alexis Coe

Aug 31 Harvard Bookstore with Patrick Wyman.

Good riddance to Dear Nicky.

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Aug 20 Politics and Prose with Jamelle Bouie

Aug 23 Midtown Scholar with Ben Rhodes

Aug 24 The Strand with Alexis Coe

Aug 31 Harvard Bookstore with Patrick Wyman.

The February Revolution began on International Women's Day

Meanwhile...Lafayette Events!

Aug 20 Politics and Prose with Jamelle Bouie

Aug 23 Midtown Scholar with Ben Rhodes

Aug 24 The Strand with Alexis Coe

Aug 31 Harvard Bookstore with Patrick Wyman.

Really should have called this episode The Verge.

Come hang out with Patrick Wyman and Me on July 22 to celbrate the launch of his book The Verge!

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Why get off the road to ruin when you can just stay on it?

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You make the call.

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Inflation and scarcity are not exactly solid foundations to base the stability of a regime.

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Ok, maybe it wasn't a great war, but it *was* a great offensive.

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Lafayette comes to America! Enjoy!

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When it started, everyone thought it was gonna be a regular war. But it turned out to be a *great* war.

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Wherein we finally talk about the Second International just so we can watch it die.

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War will cause another revolution? No! War will prevent another revolution.

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Confused by how events Balkans could spark a world war? Good news, you're not alone. All the Great Powers of Europe are right there with you.

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You already know a lot actually!

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Au revoir Paris.

A rapist protected by powerful friends? Who has ever heard of such a thing?

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Why be an illiterate Siberian peasant when you can be a sought after curiosity in St. Petersburg.

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Wherein the gods hate me, but they hated Alexei Romanov even more...

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Stolypin's reforms died. Then Stolypin died.

After re-writing election laws to ensure a Duma he could work with, Prime Minister Stolypin finally had a Duma he could work with.

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Why have two revolutions when you can have one big long revolution?

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Unity Congress more like DISunity Congress, amirite?

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Who expropriates the expropriators?

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Wherein we ask the ask the eternal question: Was it really a coup?

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To celebrate his new reform program, Prime Minster Stolypin handed out commemorative neckties. 

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They didn't get dubbed "The Duma of National Anger" because they were quiescent and complacent.

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Last time on the Revolutions Podcast...

 

Wherein I explain what the heck happened to me.

Maybe if Nicholas hadn't been so set on rejecting the verdict of 1905, there wouldn't be a Part II to look forward to.

The Days of Freedom could be numbered in days.

That time everyone stayed home from work. 

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When you think you're out in the front of the pack, but really you're being lapped.  

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When you pray for a miracle and all God sends is a metaphor. 

Voyage of the Damned Video

Battle of Tsushima Video

Bloody Sunday triggered the largest popular protests the Russian Empire had ever seen.

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When people are crying out for help, maybe don't murder them in the streets. 

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The Russian Revolution of 1905 actually began in 1904. 

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What happens when you think victory will be easy, defeat will be catastrophic...and then you start to lose?

When you can't decide whether to cultivate the revolutionary potential of the peasants or assassinate government officials, the SRs say: why not both?

When you have a majority, flaunt it. 

To build a fire one first needs a spark.

Is the end nigh? Not really. But it will be soon!

As factional disputes arose, radical Russians attempt to forge larger alliances. 

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