9.24- Swinging From A Tree

In 1918 and 1919, it was hard to tell whether the Mexican Revolution was heating up or cooling down.  Sponsor: harrys.com/revolutions 

It's time to bring the Mexican Revolution to a close Sponsor: audible.com/revolutions 

En febrero de 1917, la guerra y el hambre abrieron las puertas a la caída del régimen zarista. ocho meses después le siguió la conquista del poder por los bolcheviques. Repasamos qué provocó y cómo finalizó la revolución que cambió la historia de Europa de la mano de Rusia. 

We are republishing Alan Wood's series on the Russian Revolution as a podcast, originally released to mark the centenary of the greatest event in human history. In the final episode of the 1917 series, Alan Woods discusses the October Revolution, when the workers and peasants of ...  Show more

In 1973, 16-year-old Víctor Yáñez travels from his home in Chile to the former USSR to study agriculture. But when a military coup strikes at home, he's stranded in Communist Russia…for the rest of his life. A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3KYKYX1. 

Bestselling military historian Antony Beevor discusses his new book Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. In conversation with Rob Attar, he delves into the two revolutions that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and brought the Bolsheviks to power, and then examines the bloody civ ...  Show more