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FUN FACT: "One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd's luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 600.

Hugely impressed by this clear, concise and well balanced program. Congratulations.

Marx described how a proletarian state would arise, not what it would look like. Lenin didn't abandon Marxism, but he was forced to "wing it" as the Soviet State was breaking new ground by simply existing

"Достучаться до справедливости в ворота дворцов можно только прикладами винтовок" В.И Ленин

Usually when there is a documentary about Lenin it fails to be objective and it is strongly biased against Lenin. This doc is an exception. It does present a balanced and accurate veiw.

@5:20 the video mentions the writer Mikhail Bulgokov (sic) ... the reference likely is to the revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76), rather than to Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), who was obviously not a contemporary of Dostoyevsky or Kropotkin.

I learned about Lenin in high school as my country was then ruled by a socialist and learning the Marxist-Leninist political theory in school was a requirement. I was always fascinated by his ideology. However, I didn’t know about his childhood and overall upbringing until today. This is a well organized & informative documentary! Thank you.

A great narration, unadulterated history, no political bias, only facts.

This was an excellent documentary; step by step historical insight in to Lenin and what led to communism. Thank you!!👍👍

Extraordinary presentation. Many decades ago I pursued a graduate degree in Russian and Soviet history so I know a little something about Lenin. But your bio here expanded my knowledge. I would only add that there's a school of thought that Krupskaya had a significant hand in Lenin's final testament and I expected something on that issue. But overall I am deeply impressed with this superb presentation.

This video should indicate that a great deal of the footage of Lenin doesn’t actually depict Lenin, but instead actors portraying him.

thank you, the summing up at the end was impressive

Love these profiles! The narrator is superb and the content is very interesting! Cheers!

Fab doc. One issue: Bulgakov is mentioned early on but he did not start publishing until after WWI with his debut novel “The White Guard”

Thank you for sharing and posting this informative video that explains clearly a complicated subject.

It's important to know what happened in history, thank you very much for presenting!

I read the history of Russia since I can remember- this video filled many gaps. Thanking you for a very informative and brilliantly compiled part of history!

This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased.

Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful documentary with us. I've watched the documentaries before about this revolution, but this one was exceptional. Thanks again ❤.

Excellent documentary - I learned so much. Thank you.

These documentary presentations are indispensable. Thank you so much.

Let me say only one thing here. The video says that it was likely that Lenin did not know of his mother's Jewish heritage. But in a recent Dutch podcast I heard a professor of history say that Lenin was proud of his part-Jewish heritage, because he admired some intellectual Jews and had a high esteem of them. So my point is: so many things are said on the internet without any reliable source and many of those 'facts' or strong assumptions are not true at all.

This is as productive as it can get. Thanks a lot!

Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson. This is a truly excellent program.Well organised and unbiased..

This will, undoubtedly, be excellent

Thank you very much for such well put together documentary

excellent and very informative documentary. thanks for your effort..!

I'm thankful for this historical history,I hope you guys never stop posting all of this historical facts

Finally!!!! I was waiting for you guys to release a video on Lenin. Thank you so much!

The narrator is top shelf 🍸

Brilliant: clear, focused, and deep at the same time. Thank you!

the first Soviet Constitution of 1918 was adopted; instead of a unitary state, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) appeared; the capital was moved from Petrograd to Moscow; the abolition of estates, the Soviet man became a citizen of the republic; introduction of the Western European calendar (Gregorian); established 8-hour working day; a regulation on the social security of the elderly and disabled was adopted; laws have been passed to protect women's and child labor; free education and free medicine were proclaimed; the church is separated from the state and the school; nationalization of banks, industry, railway transport, sea and river ports; land socialization.

I'd love to see a video on Viriato or Henry the Navigator. Def have a few Portuguese individuals that would be great to watch!

Theory without experience is always dangerous. The concentration of power is the enemy, no matter the supposed end.

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Really insightful. Thank you for the history lesson

Amazing doc , i loved it thank you so much for sharing

Sooo much to learn from all this, thank you

I love your biography videos. Especially on the throughness of representing the people and the history explained. I wish you could make a video on Che Guvera.

This has to be one of the best and most importantly comprehensive documentations I have seen in quite awhile. Thank You.

Yay!!! Russian history starting! Always been fascinated with soviet Russia

These videos give a good escape from the politics and economics of today

This is a Very helpful summary of Ulanov's development in the sociopolitical context of his times--and, very well presented. Thanks

very good and interesting presentation . Thanks

Thanks so much for this wonderful and exceptionally well done documentary on Lenin.

Well, here goes my weekend. Will be watching your videos

This was a very interesting documentary. I knew nothing about Lenin. Thank you for posting.

Bravo! This is an impressive documentary, a great historiographic approach to the life and times of V. I. Lenin. I will say it again, Lenin was not only a working class hero but a gigantic working class hero!

Great documentary. It’s impressive Russia didn’t completely lose its sovereignty after what it went though in 1917 and 1918.

Excellent and comprehensive. Thanks. Regards.

Great video! Just wondering if you'd consider making videos of Kim Il-sung and/or Kim Jong-il at some point.

In the viewing of this channel and it's expertly crafted content, we are experiencing a revolution as well. A revolution of high quality content, that surpasses most of what has been seen on KZfaq, in the past. Long live the Revolution!

thanks People Profiles

a detailed and comprehensive documentary, having all the necessary factors one needs to study Lenin as a revolutionary and theorist.

Calling Lenin a reactionary makes me doubt the whole documentary immediately

Best book on this period is "Red Victory " by W Bruce Lincoln , about the civil war of 1918 - 21 , my favourite book of modern history along with Shirers "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , Lincolns book is best for its character descriptions eg] Zinoviev and kamenev as "political Siamese twins" , the description of Dzerzhinsky is brilliant , the anecdote of the Llubyanka food enough to give one nightmares , " horse hair and hide with sticky floating globules all culminating in a foul evil smelling liquid " is what I can remember from reading it way back in 92 , also the discriptions of some of the horrible cossack attamans like Kalmykov and Ungern Sternburg not to mention the anarchist leader Makhno ,if anyone likes modern history books you will love this !

Great documentary. The US with 2 parties with one ideology is no different to 'one party' in old Soviet Union?

Thank you for such a wonderful video

Just wanna say thanks for uploading. Good to fall sleep to thanks

It was impressive and unbiased and full of knowledge documentary …. The narrator himself has a balanced personality really impressive step by step provision of knowledge and events…. Thumbs up for the great job.

Very well done!

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This was very informative, I would really like a similar video about Karl Marx

Russian history is very engrossing. Thank you for this narration.

Very educational and informative

Excelent video. It congregated many of my known facts about Lenin and added more on top to build a continuous image of him. By the way, what is the outro melody?

Superb documentary, very informative!

Wonderful video!!!! 👍👍👍👍 I didn't know that Russia have royalty until I was in the fifth grade. They didn't teach much about the Russian Revolution either! I read the book, Nicolas and Alexandra and saw the movie version from that book when I was nine. Keep up the great work!❤️ Bravo!👏👏👏👏

Excellent. It has given me both an intellectual and biographical ground of Lenin. Thanks.

this is great narration...thankyou for this information

Great editing and narration

Splendid narrative. Greatings from Zaragoza- Spain

"[As Tsar Alexander] approached, the police arrested three young People's Will terrorists carrying bombs to perpetrate a second 1 March outrage. Five terrorists were hanged, including their bomb-maker, Alexander Ulyanov, aged nineteen, whose execution had a decisive influence on his younger brother, Vladimir, the future Lenin." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, footnote, page 470.

I want to thank you for this very informative, balanced and insightful, documentary. I feel that absolutely, everyone utterly, ignorant of what true and proper Communism is all about, should, really, watch this and learn something for a change. Again; Thank You. 🙂🖐🏼

This video was excellent...especially in his and Russian relationship to Germany in the early years. The one thing it did not go into enough i feel was to mention the role of Germany facilitating his return to Russia and rise to power during the war

I don’t think this is as objective and unbiased as many have suggested in the comments, but it’s still useful/informative. Thank you.

It is good to see a documentary on KZfaq that doesn't show the Lenin and the Communist as bloodthirsty monsters, but gives a more or less impartial portrayal of Lenin and the Communists. Let us not forget that under the Communists, the Russian life expectancy, which was a medieval 30 years before the Communists came to power, matched the West at 65 years by 1960. The Communists moved their country forward by centuries in a mere several decades.

Very well presented

Youre' simply the best !!!!

An extraordinary person during extraordinary times. Regardless of your personal views of this man, you cannot deny that his actions and influence changed the course of history.

Great video i learned so much!!!!!

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I feel bad for the horses.

Thank you for producing a historically objective documentary. I’m so exhausted going through other channels with their blatant revisionism and neoliberal/fascist propaganda.

As im not Russian I dont know what others think but my greatest liking of russia is the Great classical music from the Great classical composer's of Russia and the novalist as i admire all classical music be it Russian or any other country

As usual, Churchill said it best, '...the Russian people's greatest misfortune was his birth. Their second greatest was his death."

Great stuff

Can you do one about Trotsky? He was quite interesting.

LONG LIFE TO MOTHER RUSSIA AND THE GREAT PATRIOT THE GREAT VLADIMIR LENIN

Its interesting to know that some of Lenin's last words was Don't let Stalin take over.. That says something there

Surprised you guys didn't discuss Lenin's though with Romanovs exacution

Hello from Moscow! History will not forgive us if we do not act now," - very appropriate with regard to Russia-Ukraine relations and NATO expansion.

It seems that Lenin was less rabidly idealistic and more pragmatic in his latter years, especially compared to Stalin; a bit less power hungry as well. I imagine if Lenin had lived to rule for another 10-20 years, the Soviet Union may have developed quite a bit differently and history could look quite different.

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I think one should also mention those three assassination attempts on Lenin in connection with his change of mind in regards to constituent assembly and hardening of his overall position early in 1918. Counter-revolution emerged immediately after 1917 and Lenin felt that communists had to harden their approach so that they were able to deal with it better and save revolutionary gains for Russian society. You have to tie assassination attempts to Lennin's change of position in regards to the form of governing. Of course, forming of Cheka was a mistake as this monster was impossible to delete after the end of civil war. But one cannot judge Lenin here too much as conditions in which he and communists found themselves after 1917 were extreme and clear and 100% right solution was impossible to see. Situation must resolve quickly during volatile post-revolution year if one wants to have success. Add to this lack of resources for new commmunist government in terms of dealing with emergence of counter-revolution reaction. I also think that well-functioning bourgeois capitalist democracy wasnt possible in Russia at that time. It would've meant opening yourself to developed western capitalism that would have turned Russia into appendage, another "Africa", source for the rich European capitalism. Nobody would've let Russia to develop calmly into developed industrial capitalism. Russia would've gotten into same situation it got in 1990s. But way worse. So Lenin's idea was correct and only way at that point. To develop Russia into industrial country via centralized state governing. Russia would've never developed so quickly into industrial nation via capitalist profit-making logic. And people shouldnt forget the hostility of all European and Western nations towards Russia in 1920s and 1930s. Capitalists didnt want to have socialist state so close to their borders. And in 1930s Stalin really thought that England would invade Soviet Union any minute hence his paranoia.

We can only take a sustainable control of the production through the In-Group Democracy (IGD) as modelled by human ecologist Terje Bongard.

Thank you. That was great! J.

Interesting material, wonderful narration.

V. I. Lenin 1918 Task " Network of Producer and Consumer Communes " .