The Russian Empire History Podcast

07/10/2024

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Big claims have been made for the impact of the Baltic Crusades on Russia’s relationship with the West. This episode looks at whether they stand up to scrutiny.

06/09/2024

A new series begins

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30/06/2024

Member episodes now available on Supercast.

09/06/2024

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28/04/2024

New member episode out now! Q&A coming next weekend.

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04/06/2023

We’re back with a new episode out now.

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07/04/2023

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In this episode, we begin exploring the formation of Volga Bulgaria, a major medieval European kingdom that will play a significant role in our story. Subscribe for exclusive member episodes via Patreon, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

29/03/2023

New member episode out now

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18/03/2023

A new special episode out now

In this special episode, I discuss how Byzantium viewed Rus and aspects of their relationship with Dr Monica White of the University of Nottingham.

05/03/2023

New episode out now

Olga of Kyiv has been venerated as a saint and gained popularity in modern times as a vengeful warrior queen, but how true are those stories? Listen to this ep...

18/02/2023

New episode out now!

On his deathbed, Rurik appoints his relative, Oleg, to rule. Or does he? He successfully expands Rus rule south onto the Dnieper, makes Kyiv his capital, and o...

04/02/2023

New episode out now.

Welcome back for 2023. This episode kicks off our chronological look at the rulers of Rus, starting with Rurik. By tradition, Rurik is the founder of the dynas...

03/02/2023

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27/01/2023

Back for 2023. New member episode out now. Main podcast episode coming next week.

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22/12/2022

While I’m taking a break over the New Year, you can catch me talking about the Huns on the Garden of Doom.

‎Show Garden Of Doom, Ep E. 139 Who were the Huns? Who are the Hungarians? - 3 Dec 2022

19/12/2022

Last episode introducing the Rus out now.

This mini-series in Episodes 1.24, 1.25, and 1.26 provides an overview of Rus origins.  In Episode 1.24, we look at where Scandinavian adventurers, raid...

05/12/2022

New member episode out now.

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14/10/2022

New episode now out

The final part of our before the Rus mini-series looks at the first Scandinavian movements into the East.  The first traces of a Scandinavian presence...

06/10/2022

New episode out now

Before getting into the story of the Rus, we have to address possibly the biggest controversy in Russian and Ukrainian history - who were the Rus? The debate b...

23/09/2022

New Member Episode out now.

St. Cyril and St. Methodius, brothers from Byzantine Thessalonica, are known to history as the Apostles to the Slavs and venerated throughout the Slavic world....

02/09/2022

A short (7 part) podcast on today’s Russia that you may find interesting. Boris Nemtsov’s daughter Zhanna talks about his life and death.

https://crooked.com/podcast-series/another-russia/

Boris Nemtsov was at the center of every major turning point in Russia’s modern history. He was an activist for democracy as the Soviet Union collapsed. He went from being heir apparent to President Yeltsin in the 90s, to leading the opposition movement when Putin took power in the 2000’s. When ...

30/08/2022

Mikhail Gorbachev’s first job after graduating was traveling around villages telling people about Bolshevik crimes as part of Khrushchev’s efforts to end the Stalinist cult of personality. But the ordinary people he encountered did not care about tales of torture, murder and mass repression back in Leningrad or Moscow. Millions had volunteered to participate in Communist programs to build Soviet industry, transportation, and agriculture. They had suffered personal losses and enormous privation, but had, they thought, succeeded. Then came the war, and millions of them gave their blood and lives for the Generalissimo. They were not ready or willing to hear that the ideals they had followed were false, or that their sacrifices and suffering had been unnecessary and caused by Stalin’s policies and choices.

His opponents won, and today’s Russia is the consequence.

Many criticisms will be leveled at his life and work. He was a deeply flawed person whose personality made things worse at key times. But he was the rare leader who actually tried to make the world a better place. He will fairly be charged with the crackdowns in the Baltics, Kazakhstan and Georgia, but those crackdowns were the inevitable result of the Soviet system. When he had to make the choice, he chose to stop. Under any other leader, I believe, the unavoidable collapse of the Soviet Union and withdrawal from Eastern Europe would have followed the Yugoslavian scenario on a catastrophic scale.

29/08/2022

Out now

https://therussianempirehistorypodcast.com/episode/episode-121-before-the-rus-part-ii-bulgars-chuvash-pechenegs-magyars

Continuing our survey before the Rus with a look at the eastern part of the region. The Bulgars reach the central Volga, Magyars move south, Khazar power preve...

08/08/2022

New episode out now
https://therussianempirehistorypodcast.com/blog/episode-20-before-the-rus-part-i

This episode starts a short series to bring us up to the Rus. We will be looking at the East Slavic tribes, first ruled by the Avars, then tributaries of the Kh...