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Nicholas II and the 1905 Revolution: Bloody Sunday to the October Manifesto
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the 1905 Russian Revolution, a seismic event that shook the Romanov dynasty to its core. Beginning with Bloody Sunday on January 9, 1905, when Father Georgy Gapon led a peaceful march to the Winter Palace only to be met by gunfire, the conversation traces the explosion of strikes, mutinies, and peasant uprisings that followed. Lucas explains how the Potemkin mutiny, the establishment of the St. Petersburg Soviet, and the general strike forced Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto, creating a State Duma and granting civil liberties. But as the hosts…
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