05: Lenin and the Great Ungluing | The Age of Uncertainty

Duration: 53'56''

Synopsis

JK Galbraith examines WWI as an instrument in changing the old social order, and especially Lenin, who spent most of the war exiled in Switzerland urging soldiers to start a world revolution. A revolution did come, but Lenin nearly missed his chance to be part of it.

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