In 1917, the Russian Empire did not collapse once; it fell twice. In February, freezing bread lines and mutinous conscripts toppled Tsar Nicholas II in a matter of days, ending three hundred years of Romanov autocracy. But the democratic government that replaced him made a fatal choice: continuing the carnage of the First World War. From German sealed trains to Bolshevik storming parties, this is the story of how an empire of one hundred and eighty million people disintegrated from within, and how Vladimir Lenin used nine months of chaos to capture supreme power.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:21 Chapter 1: The Frozen Queue
06:37 Chapter 2: The Train at Pskov
11:23 Chapter 3: Two Masters in One Palace
16:02 Chapter 4: The Sealed Carriage
19:25 Chapter 5: Blood on the Nevsky
24:44 Chapter 6: Trotsky Sets the Trap
29:14 Chapter 7: The October Night
34:12 What happened next
Featuring: Nicholas II, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Alexander Kerensky, Lavr Kornilov, Mikhail Rodzianko
Dialogue dramatised from history; voices are AI-generated.
Maps: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), Natural Earth.
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