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The Romanovs and the 1905 Revolution: Bloody Sunday to October Manifesto
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1905 Russian Revolution, a seismic event that shook the Romanov dynasty to its core. They begin with Bloody Sunday on January 9, 1905, when Father Georgy Gapon led a peaceful march to the Winter Palace, only to be met by rifle fire from the Imperial Guard. The massacre, which killed hundreds, shattered the myth of the Tsar-Batiushka, the benevolent father-tsar. Lucas traces the wave of strikes, mutinies, and peasant uprisings that followed, including the Potemkin mutiny in Odessa and the formation of the first Soviet in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Luna asks…
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