This podcast discusses Chapter 1 of Guillotine at Work. You can find its notes here: https://www.classwithmason.com/2025/01/chapter-1-lenins-road-to-power-notes.html
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All right, so today we're going to dive into some really fascinating stuff about Lenin.
Oh, yeah.
His rise to power. And specifically, we're going to be looking at the contrast between what he was promising before the revolution and kind of what happened afterward, the actions that were taken. Yeah. And our main source for this is... is going to be Gregory Maximoff's guillotine at work.
OK.
Specifically, chapter one, which is all about Lenin's road to power.
And it is a fascinating road. It is. You know, one of the things that that Maximoff points out is that, you know, the Russian Revolution actually started as a bloodless revolution.
Really?
Yeah. And you think about that.
It's kind of counterintuitive to how we think about this.
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