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Hopefully a solid YT video is out there? Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rosa Luxemburg's The Russian Revolution could be of help

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm... you probably don't want to read Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War because it's a tough slog to get through, despite being a short book, especially if you aren't already familiar with what happened there.

I haven't actually listened to much of the Revolutions podcast and the host has a very strong bias to anarchism/anti-"authoritarianism"/the anti-Soviet paradigm but in season 10 he covers the Russian Revolution and the later episodes deal with the subject matter, although I'm not sure how in-depth he goes but check out Reds and Whites, Anarchy in Ukraine, and The Collapse of The Whites (but also keep in mind that he really wears his biases on his sleeve.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm pretty good at teasing out biases like that. Although sometimes I get pissed off, like when I read Legacy of Ashes by that clown Tim Weiner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From an anarchists' point of view Alexander Berkman wrote of his time in Bioeshevik Russia during 1920-1922, the tail end of the Russian civil war. The Bolshevik Myth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Late answer, I know - but Ten Years that Shook the World is a great outlook on the period, even if it's from a non-marxist perspective. Otherwise I'd check out Mike Duncan's coverage of the revolution on his podcast, altough he takes a very liberal turn at the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's on my massive book backlog 😩

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea, I don't really like recommending massive books no matter how readable they are, but I don't think a subject matter as massive as the 1917 revolution or the civil war can be consumed that lightly. And as far as I know most Youtube documentaries or essays are not that good.