{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 125: Mark Galeotti - Russian History in 60 Minutes","slug":"episode-125-mark-galeotti-russian-history-in-60-minutes","published_at":"2024-10-18T09:00:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-125-mark-galeotti-russian-history-in-60-minutes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1703784","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1703784/humans/2024_10_15_02_20_40_bb7ce211-4355-48db-987d-fe725c4b16dd.mp3","summary":"Mark Galeotti is a historian, an essayist, a podcaster, and the author of many books including \"A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin.\" ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) Czarist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century (03:50) The Russian Revolution (08:00) World War I and The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (11:52) Lenin and Stalin (17:00) The Great Terror (21:02) Russia during World War II (28:15) How close were the Nazis to taking over the Soviet Union? (29:50) Russia and The Cold War (37:05) Why Soviets no longer believed in Marxism (39:35) The life and rise of Vladimir Putin (45:35) Putin, Yeltsin, and the turn of the century (51:56) How do we misunderstand the modern Russian government? (55:05) Alexei Navalny (59:20) The war with Ukraine","meta_description":"Mark Galeotti is a historian, an essayist, a podcaster, and the author of many books including \"A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3837,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-125-mark-galeotti-russian-history-in-60-minutes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-125-mark-galeotti-russian-history-in-60-minutes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}