Mark Galeotti is a historian, an essayist, a podcaster, and the author of many books including "A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin."

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(00:00) Intro

(01:00) Czarist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century

(03:50) The Russian Revolution

(08:00) World War I and The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

(11:52) Lenin and Stalin

(17:00) The Great Terror

(21:02) Russia during World War II

(28:15) How close were the Nazis to taking over the Soviet Union?

(29:50) Russia and The Cold War

(37:05) Why Soviets no longer believed in Marxism

(39:35) The life and rise of Vladimir Putin

(45:35) Putin, Yeltsin, and the turn of the century

(51:56) How do we misunderstand the modern Russian government?

(55:05) Alexei Navalny

(59:20) The war with Ukraine