Month: February 2019

146: Chaos in the Army

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Alexander Kerensky in 1917.

The Russian Provisional Government was looking weaker than ever, and the Kerensky Offensive only made the situation worse.

The Russian General Lavr Kornilov seemed to be the right soldier to revive the Army, but was he plotting a right-wing coup?

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Composed in 1878 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Public domain.
Performed by the United States Navy Band. Public domain recording. Source. 

Closing War Theme 


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145: The July Days

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Violence in the streets of Petrograd during the July Days.

Alexander Kerensky became Minister of War and set to work revitalizing the Russian Army and planning a new offensive against the Austrians.

But word of the new offensive did not sit well with socialists, and particularly with the Bolsheviks in the Petrograd Garrison, who rose up against the Provisional Government.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

“Farewell of Slavianka”
Composed in 1912 by Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin. Public domain.
Performed by The United States Coast Guard Band. Public domain recording. Source.

Closing War Theme 


Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some music and sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5.

144: All Power to the Soviets

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Military veterans protesting the return of Lenin to Petrograd in April 1917. The bottom line advises Lenin to “go back to [Kaiser] Wilhelm.”

The question of war aims comes to the front and center when the liberal ministers of the Provisional Government repeatedly refuse to renounce Russian territorial claims and agree with the Petrograd Soviet on a “peace without annexations or indemnities.”

The resulting government shake-up brought socialists into the Provisional Government and made it a government of national unity like the ones in London and Paris…except for the Bolsheviks, who refuse to temper their criticisms.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

Piano Sonata No. 3
Composed in 1917 by Sergei Prokofiev. Public domain.
Performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Source. 

Closing War Theme 


Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some music and sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5.