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The Romanovs and the Lena Goldfields Massacre
In April 1912, far from the glittering court of St. Petersburg, a strike at the Lena goldfields in Siberia turned into a massacre that shook the Romanov Empire. Troops fired on unarmed miners, killing at least 170 men, women, and children. The Lena massacre ignited a wave of strikes across Russia—over 300,000 workers walked out—and became a rallying cry for revolutionaries. But who ordered the shooting? Why did the tsarist government back the mining company, Lenzoto, even as it exploited workers in brutal conditions? This episode unpacks the remote disaster that exposed the regime's…
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