The Origins of Russian Authoritarianism

Man it just seems Russia is just doomed to fail like its destiny or something?

Chris Wreker

god damn this is good.

This is great but I miss sitting down with a cup of tea and watching an hour long documentary about the entire history of a country

I personally love this time format! I saw someone earlier saying that you should split your large videos into parts as well when you get back to them, and I agree with that!

Eli

In most jurisdiction, it's ok to use snippets without permission. It's called Fair Use in the US, and something similar in other places. It's what protects rappers from getting sued to death for one-second samples of other songs. It's still a bit risky. Baseless copyright infringement accusations are abused all the time to silence creators. Youtube and most platforms will usually remove content as soon as a claim has been made, not when a judge actually decides. Cases rarely make it to a judge, so it's completely unfair and arbitrary, but this system is necessary to maximize Disney's profit, so you see, it's worth it in the end.

Julien Boyer

rly great thumbnail art

Drew Voss

amgnus

Drew Voss

How do you use video and other visual media footage from IP like Total War: Attila without getting copyright striked or a DCMA notice? Are these things part of the Creative Commons?

Nice video! Although I think the impact of the period of Ivan the terrible is a bit underestimated, Peter and communism merely build upon the structure Ivan allowed, and Ivan achieves something quite unique in the scope and scale of authoritarianism. Also, although there is clear redlining between the current system and the previous one, the current oligarchical kleptocratic system is something quite different from the previous one and was mainly due to the fall of what was a superpower, it is at the core unsustainable and history will remember it just as an interphase between the communism and what will come next.

I am fanatically enthralled with all of your videos on Russia and mentions of it in other topics, but this is yet again a refreshing subject for discussion. I believe your video on Russia’s systemic addiction to alcohol was excellent, and it’s popularity definitely owed to a general stereotype of Russians and vodka, however I believe topics such as it’s own flavor of Absolutism are just as important as they give us more context to the political frame work and consequences of that frame work in the modern world, which I believe can be further used to navigate and change Russia for the better. Definitely had me crying a silent tear for what Russia could have been like if Novgorod was the dominant, unifying figure of it’s people🥲

Christopher Pinar

One point of contention. In the end, you say that, as Chinese officials rise up in the system they become less corrupt. This is not the case. They still become more corrupt the further they rise in the system, it is just the form of the corruption that becomes less obvious than the massive individual wealth of Russian oligarchs and public officials. In China, the continual rise in wealth gets spread throughout the family with the relatives and children of state officials curiously gaining access to business opportunities. The family of Xi Jinping is obscenely wealthy, but this gets obfuscated by his public purge of 'tigers and flies' such as his rival Bo Xilai, whose wife was so comfortable in her assumed wealth and status that she believed she could get away with having the British businessman Neil Heywood murdered.

Alex Edwards

This video better be about Peter the Great, I just wrote a paper about this subject for a Russian history class

Bob Luchetta-Stendel

Well... That was an absolute bummer, brilliantly put !

TY Kraut!

T. Destroyer