Who killed the USSR: Lenin and the RSDLP
The first video in the "Who Killed the USSR" series. We'll explore the mysterious forces that helped Lenin create the party that would later seize power. What was needed to build a revolutionary organization from scratch? What role did Trotsky and Stalin play? The whole truth about one of the least studied stages of the future Bolsheviks' activities.
0:00 A Leftist's Dream
1:00 Masha and Fedya Begin the Investigation
1:48 Decembrists
3:25 Raznochintsy: Herzen, Chernyshevsky
4:05 Land and Freedom: The Split into Narodnaya Volya and the Black Redistribution
4:30 Plekhanov and the Emancipation of Labor
5:28 The Labor Movement in the Russian Empire
7:48 Marxist Circles
9:09 Lenin in the Circles
13:00 Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
15:20 The First Split!
5:22 PM The Investigation Has Reached a Dead End
6:23 PM Fedya and Masha Head to Minsk
6:50 PM The First Party Congress
7:58 PM The Geography of the Circle Movement
8:45 PM Who Founded the RSDLP?
11:35 PM How Was the First Congress Held?
8:04 PM Congress Results
8:05 PM To Be Continued...
List of Sources: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/--A6Fkx...
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