• Stalin's Enabler's - Part Two
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• Stalin's Enablers - Part One
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• Episode 209 - Revisiting Vladimir the Great - Part Two
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• Episode 208 - Revisiting Vladimir the Great
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• Episode 207 - Back to the Beginning
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• Episode 206 - The History of Ukraine - Part Two
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• A Book Review - Russian Fiction
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• Episode 205 - The History of Ukraine and its Relationship to Russia - Part One
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• Episode 204 - Siberia - Women and Children
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• Episode 203 - Siberia - Opportunity, Torment, and Captivity
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• Episode 202 - Siberia - Part One
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• Episode 201 - Ivan Grozny - The First Russian Tsar
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• Episode 200 - Musings of a Russian History Podcaster
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• Episode 199 - Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse
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• Episode 198 - The 1991 Soviet Coup d'etat Attempt
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• Episode 197 - Things You Did Not Know About Russia
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• Episode 196 - Things You Didn't Know About the Soviet Union
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• Episode 195 - Boris Pasternak
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• Episode 194 - Time of Troubles
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• Episode 193 - Michael, Philaret, Alexis and Feodor
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• Episode 192 - The Regency of Sophia
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• Episode 191 - Alexander Suvorov
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• Ivan the Terrible versus Charles "Lucky" Luciano
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• Peter the Great versus Ronald Reagan
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• Battle Ground History
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• Episode 191 - It's A Wrap
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• Episode 190 - Peter the Great - A Reassessment
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• Episode 189 - Elizabeth, Ivan VI, Anna, Peter II and Catherine I
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• Episode 188 - Catherine the Great & Peter III - A Reassessment
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• Episode 187 - The Russian Civil War - The End
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• Episode 186 - The Russian Civil War - Here Come the Whites
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• Episode 185 - The Russian Civil War - The Beginning
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• Episode 184 - The Russian Civil War - Part 3 - The Background
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• Episode 183 - The Russian Civil War Part 2 - The Belligerents - The Red's and Black's
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• Episode 182 - The Russian Civil War, Part 1 - The Belligerents - The Whites
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• Episode 181 - Tsar Paul - Was He Such a Bad Guy After All?
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• Episode 180 - Three Alexander's and a Nicholas In Between
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• Episode 179 - Nicholas II - Who Could Have Done it Better?
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• Episode 178 - Lenin - Could You Stay A Little While Longer?
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• Episode 177 - The Henchman of Khrushchev and Stalin - Part 2
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• Episode 176 - The Henchmen of Stalin & Khrushchev - Part 1
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• Episode 175 - Charlatan, Con Man, Murderer - Trofim Lysenko
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• Episode 174 - Getting Older by the Minute - Leonid Brezhnev
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• Episode 173 - A Rotten Stinking Mess, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko
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• Episode 172 - A Collapsing Empire - Mikhail Gorbachev
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• Episode 171 - Communist, Rebel and Capitalist Wanna Be - Boris Yeltsin
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• Podcast Update
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• Episode 170 - No Foreseeable End - Vladimir Putin
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• Episode 169 - The History of Ukraine - Part Two
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• Episode 168 - The History of Ukraine - Part One
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• Episode 167 - Famines in Russia and the Soviet Union
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• Episode 166 - Alexander Pushkin - Part Three
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• Episode 165 - Alexander Pushkin - Part Two
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• Episode 164 - Alexander Pushkin - Part One
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• Episode 163 - Leo Tolstoy - The Later Years of Transformation
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• Episode 162 - Leo Tolstoy - Marriage, War and Peace and Anna Karenina
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• Episode 161 - Leo Tolstoy - Manhood Part II
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• Episode 160 - Leo Tolstoy - Manhood - Part 1
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• Episode 159 - Leo Tolstoy - Boyhood and Youth
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• Episode 158 - Leo Tolstoy - Childhood and Boyhood
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• Episode 157 - Life on the Russian Country Estate - Part Two
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• Episode 156 - The Russian Country Estate - Part One
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• Episode 155 - Leon Trotsky - Ouster to End
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• Episode 154 - Leon Trotsky - 1905-1917
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• Episode 153 - Leon Trotsky - Part One
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• Episode 152 - The Life of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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• Episode 151 - Pyotr Tchaikovsky and the 1812 Overture
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• Episode 150 - The Mongol Invasion - Did it Really Matter?
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• Episode 149 - The Crimean War - The Aftermath
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• Episode 148 - The Crimean War - The End
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• Episode 147 - The Crimean War - Part Seven
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Light Brigade
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• Episode 146 - The Crimean War - Part Six
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• Episode 145 - The Crimean War - Part Five
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• Episode 144 - The Crimean War - The Leaders
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• Episode 143 - The Crimean War - Part Four
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• Episode 142 - The Crimean War - Part Three
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• Episode 140 - How's He Do It?
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• Episode 141 - The Crimean War - Part Two
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• Episode 139 - The Crimean War - Part One - A Short History of Crimea
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• Episode 138 - The Enserfment of the Russian Peasant
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• Episode 137 - A Very Brief History of Belarus
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• Episode 136 - The Battle of Borodino
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• Episode 135 - Russian Generals of the Napoleonic Era, Part 2
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• Episode 134 - The Russian Imperial Army
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• Episode 133 - Russian Generals of the Napoleonic Era, Part One
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• Episode 132 - The Life and Murder of Grigori Rasputin - Part 2
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• Episode 131 - The Life and Murder of Grigori Rasputin, Part 1
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• Episode 130 - Was the Starets Feodor Kuzmich Really Alexander I
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• Episode 129 - The Four Rebellions - A Final Discussion
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• Episode 128 - The Pugachev Rebellion
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• Episode 127 - The Pugachev Rebellion - Part 1
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• Episode 126 - The Bulavin Rebellion
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• Episode 125 - The Rebellion of Stenka Razin
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• Episode 124 - The Bolotnikov Rebellion - 1606-7
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• Episode 123 - The History of the Russian Orthodox Church - Part 4
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• Episode 122 - The History of the Russian Orthodox Church - Part 3
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• Episode 121 - The History of the Russian Orthodox Church - Part 2
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• Episode 120 - The History of the Russian Orthodox Church - Part 1
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• Episode 119 - The Geography and Climate of Russia
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• Episode 118 - Chechnya and Russia: A Bad Relationship
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• Episode 117 - Vladimir Putin - An Unexpected Rise
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• Episode 116 - President to Private Citizen - Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
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• Episode 115 - A Coup, A Failure, and the Beginning of a New Russia
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• Episode 114 - Rise of the Phoenix
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• Episode 113 - Yeltsin Begins to Make His Mark
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• Episode 112 - Yeltsin Grows Up
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• Episode 111 - Boris Yeltsin - The Early Years
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• Episode 110 - The End of the USSR
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• Episode 109 - The End Game Nears
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• Episode 108 - Gorbachev Muddles Through Things
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• Episode 107 - Gorbachev Rises On Top of a Heaping Mess of Things
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• Episode 106 - Gorbachev Joins the Party
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• Overdrive - The Christianization of the Rus - Primary Chronicles
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• Episode 105 - Gorbachev - How He Got On Top In His Words
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• A Russian Halloween Story - The Blacksmith and the Devil
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• Episode 104 - Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chenenko and the Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev
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• Episode 103 - Brezhnev and the Era Of Stagnation
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• Episode 102 - A Collective Leadership Takes Control
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• Overdrive - The Primary Chronicles - Part One
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• Overdrive - The Plight of the Consumer
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• Episode 101 - We Will Bury You Nikita Sergeyevich
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• Overdrive - The Sino/Soviet Conflict According to Khrushchev
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• Episode 100 - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
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• Episode 99 - Teetering at the Brink of War
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• Episode 98 - A Series of Unfortunate Decisions
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• Episode 97 - The Berlin Wall and The Cuban Missile Crisis
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• Overdrive - Mao in Moscow
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• Episode 96 - The American Trip, The U-2 and The Shoe
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• Overdrive - First Visit to Peking
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• Episode 95 - The Berlin Crisis and Khrushchev Visits America, Part 1
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• Overdrive Episode - The Origins of the Schism with China
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• Episode 94 - Khrushchev Meets the World
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• Episode 93 - The June Coup
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• Episode 92 - The Hungarian Revolution
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• Episode 91 - Khrushchev Grows Up
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• Episode 90 - Who is This Khrushchev Guy Anyway?
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• Episode 89 - Jockeying for Position
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• Episode 88 - On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
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• Episode 87 - Who's In Charge?
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• Episode 86 - The End of a Monster
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• Episode 85 - The End of One War, the Beginning of Another
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• Episode 84 - Wehrmacht on the Run
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• Episode 83 - The Battle for the Motherland
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• Episode 82 - Operation Barbarossa: Stalin's Worst Nightmare
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• Episode 81 - Invasion
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• Episode 80 - Stalin's Great Purge - Part II
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• Episode 79 - Stalin's Great Purge - Part I
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• Episode 78 - The Beginning of the Reign of Terror
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• Episode 77 - Once a Follower, Now a Leader
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• Episode 76 - The Transformation of Stalin
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• Episode 75 - Mikhail Bakunin - The Collectivist Anarchist
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• Episode 74 - Koba, Lenin's Left Leg
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• Episode 73 - Soso, The Young Stalin
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• Episode 72 - Comrade Lenin We Hardly Knew You
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• Episode 71 - The Russian Civil War
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• Episode 70 - The Bolsheviks are Coming, the Bolsheviks are Coming
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• Episode 69 - The Provisional Government
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• Questions and Answers #1
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• Episode 68 - Death to the Romanov's
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• Episode 67 - Why Did It Have To End?
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• Episode 66 - From Celebrations to the Misery of War
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• Episode 65 - The Beginning of the End for Nicholas II
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• Episode 64 - Tsar Nicholas II Loses His Relationship With His People
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• Episode 63 - Road Trip to Destruction
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• Episode 62 - Nicholas II and His String of Major Errors
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• Episode 61 - The Ascension of the Last Romanov
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• Episode 60 - Reforms? There Will Be No Reforms!
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• Episode 59 - Kill the Reformer
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• Episode 58 - The Ascension of the Great Liberator - Alexander II
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• Slap Shot Episode - Russian History Books
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• Episode 57 - The Misery is Beyond Description
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• Episode 56 - A Major Turn to the Right, Nicholas I Takes Control
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• Episode 55 - Napoleon on the Run
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• Slap Shot Episode - The State of Russia in the Early 1800's
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• Episode 54 - Napoleon versus Alexander
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• Episode 53 - Guilt, Will Follow Him All His Days
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Evil Within Russia - Serfdom
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• Episode 52 - Emperor Paul I
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• Episode 51 - One Down, Six to Go
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• Episode 50 - Catherine Goes to the Crimea
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• Episode 49 - The Maturing Catherine
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• First Anniversary Edition of the Russian Rulers Podcast - Part Two
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• Episode 48 - The Love of Her Life, Grigory Potemkin
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• Episode 47 - The Pugachev Rebellion
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• First Anniversary Edition of the Russian Rulers Podcast - Part One
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• Episode 46 - Leading by Example
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• Episode 45 - A Fragile Hold on Power
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• Epsiode 44 - The Ascension of Catherine
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• Episode 43 - Catherine, the Virgin Wife
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• Episode 42 - Catherine, The Early Years
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• Slap Shot Episode - Peter III - Freeing the Nobility From Service
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• Episode 41 - Elizabeth I, The War of Austrian Succession & The Seven Years War
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• Epsiode 40 - The Reign of Elizabeth I, Part One
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• Episode 39 - Catherine I to Elizabeth I
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• Slap Shot Episode - Peter's Table of Ranks
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• Episode 38 - But There Is Still So Much To Do
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• Episode 37 - A Son, An Heir, A Grave Disappointment
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• Episode 36 - The Aftermath of Poltava and the Disaster at Pruth
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• Slap Shot Episode - Charles XII of Sweden
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• Episode 35 - The Great Northern War, Peter Makes A Comeback
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• Episode 34 - Two Titans - Peter and Charles XII
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• Episode 33 - The Great Embassy, Part 2
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• Episode 32 - The Great Embassy, Part 1
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• Episode 31 - Peter Takes on the Turks
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• Episode 30 - Tsar Peter's All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters
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• Episode 29 - Peter Takes Control
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• Slap Shot Episode - Muscovite Self-Criticism and the Western Influence
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• Slap Shot Episode - Muscovite Education
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• Slap Shot Episode - Muscovite Arts and Architecture
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• Episode 28 - Sophia and Golitsyn - Keeping the Throne Warm for Peter
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• Slap Shot Episode - Muscovite Thought and Literature
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• Slap Shot Episode - Muscovite Religion and the Schism
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• Episode 27 - Peter Likes to Play War
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• Episode 26 - The Streltsy Revolt
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• Episode 25 - Alexis I and Feodor III
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Food and Drink of 17th Century Russians
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Cossacks
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• Episode 24 - The Dawn of the Romanov Dynasty
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• Episode 23 - One Dmitri, Two Dmitri, Three Dmitri, More!
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• Episode 22 - Feodor I and the ascension of Boris Godunov
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• Episode 21 - Ivan IV - Oh My God, What Have I Done?
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Oprichnina
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• Episode 20 - Ivan IV and The Reign of Terror
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Not So Merry Wives of Ivan the Terrible
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• Episode 19 - Ivan Becomes the Terrible
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• Episode 18 - Ivan Grozny Unleashed
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• Episode 17 - Ivan IV, The Youthful Warrior
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• Episode 16 - The Coronation and Marriage of Ivan IV
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• Episode 15 - Ivan IV, The Early Years, Part Two
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• Episode 14 - Ivan IV - The Early Years, Part One
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• Episode 13 - Vasilli III and Why Moscow?
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• Episode 12 - Ivan the Great, Part Three
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• Episode 11 - Ivan the Great, Part Two
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• Episode 10 - Ivan the Great Part One
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• Slap Shot Episode - St. Sergius of Radonezh
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• Episode 9 - Vasili I and Vasili the Blind
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• Episode 8 - Dmitri Donskoi
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• Episode 7 - Ivan Moneybags, Simeon the Proud and Ivan the Meek
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• Episode 6 - The Rise of Moscow
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• Episode 5 - Alexander Nevsky
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• Slap Shot Episode - The Appanage System
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• Episode 4 - Andrei Bogolyubski and the Arrival of the Mongols
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• Episode 3 - Yaroslav the Wise to the End of the Kievian Dominance
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• Episode 2 - Vladimir the Great and Sviatopolk the Accursed
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• Episode 1 - Who are the Russians? Rurik to Yarolpolk I
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