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The Romanovs and the 1917 February Revolution
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the February Revolution of 1917, the unplanned uprising that toppled the Romanov dynasty after three centuries. They examine the cascading failures of World War I: the Brusilov Offensive's pyrrhic victory, the shell shortage of 1915, the rise of the Progressive Bloc in the Duma, and the catastrophic winter of 1916–17. Lucas explains how bread riots in Petrograd spiraled into a general strike, how soldiers of the Petrograd garrison mutinied rather than fire on crowds, and how Tsar Nicholas II's abdication at Pskov ended with his family under…
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