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20th Century Revolutions
By Matt PayneHistory
20th Century Revolutions episodes
- Sarajevo 1914: The Assassin, the Archduke, and Nationalism's Crucible
On June 28, 1914, a single city became the fault line between empires, nations, and ideologies.
In Sarajevo, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set in motion a chain of events that would drag Europe into total war. But the shots fired that morning did not emerge from a vacuum. They were shaped by decades of imperial rule, nationalist movements, revolutionary politics, and a generation convinced that history itself was accelerating.
This episode explores Sarajevo not just as the site of an assassination, but as a place where competing visions of power, identity, and liberation collided—revealing how the pressures of empire and ideology can turn a local act into a global catastrophe.
This episode also serves as a bridge to my new podcast, ISM: Ideas Meet Power, which explores the history of political ideologies through the moments when they collide with reality.
Written and produced by Matt Payne.
Support, Subscribe, Read on Substack: https://ismhistorypodcast.substack.com/
Original Musical Compositions by Ian Payne: https://www.jamesianpayne.com/
Support the Show: PayPal
Contact: [email protected]
1 hr 6 min - Introducing ISM: Ideas Meet Power
ISM is a narrative history podcast about political ideologies and social movements—socialism, anarchism, fascism, liberalism, and beyond.
Each season explores a major ideology through immersive storytelling and historical analysis, tracing how ideas move from theory into the real world, shaping revolutions, states, and everyday life.
Ideas Meet Power.
Written and produced by Matt Payne.
Support, Subscribe, Read on Substack: https://ismhistorypodcast.substack.com/
Original Musical Compositions by Ian Payne: https://www.jamesianpayne.com/
Support the Show: PayPal
Contact: [email protected]
3 min - 2.32 The Three Pashas
We made it! As the Ottomans approach that apocalyptic vortex called World War I, they are led into the abyss by the CUP and the "Three Pashas": Talaat, Enver, and Cemal (in order of importance... sorry Cemal).
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
46 min - 2.31 Raid on the Sublime Porte (Balkan Wars pt. 2)
Talaat makes the plan. Enver gets the glory. Djemal is along for the ride.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
33 min - 2.30 Fall of Rumelia (Balkan Wars pt. 1)
The First Balkan War did not go so well for the Ottomans.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
40 min - 2.29 Libya 1911: Enver's War
Ismail Enver, Mustafa Kemal, and other Unionist officers launch a guerrilla war to drive the invading Italians out of Libya. After the Italians open up a new front in the Aegean, the CUP faces a major crisis in Istanbul as the "Savior Officers" launch a coup to overthrow their government.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
49 min - 2.28 Armenian Fire, Albanian Revolt
Exit Ottomanism. Enter Turkification.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
46 min - 2.27 Action Army
General Mahmud Shevket leads a large multi-ethnic army out of Salonica and marches on Istanbul. Helping Shevket fight reactionaries in the capital would be other officers of destiny like Niyazi, Enver, Cemal, Mustafa Kemal, and of course, the Lucky Deer.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
55 min - 2.26 Sultan Strikes Back
As the counterrevolution gripped Istanbul in 1909, the dream of Islamic modernism cracked, giving way to that fateful split between secular nationalism and political Islam.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
52 min - 2.25 Bosnian Crisis
In October of 1908, the Ottomans lost Bulgaria to independence, Bosnia to Austria, and Crete to Greece. And then Europe is steamrolling towards for the Great War as Russia and Austria try to regain their lost imperial prestige.
Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2
For helpful maps, photos, and other media, check out the website: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne
Make a One Time Donation: PayPal
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About 20th Century Revolutions
From the publisher's feed
20th Century Revolutions is a weekly podcast that traces some of the most consequential revolutions, political and social, that took place across the globe during the 20th…
Century.
Currently On: "Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2"
As a podcast about revolutions, the narrative will naturally pick up where the great Mike Duncan left off in his wonderful Revolutions podcast. This show is similarly broken up into seasons each covering different revolutions with episodes that are around 25-40 minutes long.
As a podcast about the 20th century, I will try to make some sense of the 20th century and how the dramatic events of these 100 years shaped our world today. One of my hopes is that the framework of political and social revolutions will allow for new understandings of the 20th century.
If you have any suggestions for future seasons, notice any serious blunders I have made in my facts or pronunciation, or just want to say hi, please email me at [email protected].
Helpful maps and images: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com
Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne