20th Century Revolutions

20th Century Revolutions

20th Century Revolutions is a weekly podcast that traces some of the most consequential revolutions, political and social, that took place across the globe during the 20th Century. Currently On: "Season 2: The Young Turks - Revolutions of the Ottoman Collapse, pt. 2" As a podcast about revolutions, the narrative will naturally pick up where the great Mike Duncan left off in his wonderful Revolutions podcast. This show is similarly broken up into seasons each covering different revolutions with episodes that are around 25-40 minutes long. As a podcast about the 20th century, I will try to make some sense of the 20th century and how the dramatic events of these 100 years shaped our world today. One of my hopes is that the framework of political and social revolutions will allow for new understandings of the 20th century. If you have any suggestions for future seasons, notice any serious blunders I have made in my facts or pronunciation, or just want to say hi, please email me at twentiethcenturyrevolutions@gmail.com. Helpful maps and images: 20thcenturyrevolutions.com Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/c/mattpayne

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June 11, 2025 • 54 mins

General Mahmud Shevket leads a large multi-ethnic army out of Salonica and marches on Istanbul. Helping Shevket fight reactionaries in the capital would be other officers of destiny like Niyazi, Enver, Cemal, Mustafa Kemal, and of course, the Lucky Deer.

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As the counterrevolution gripped Istanbul in 1909, the dream of Islamic modernism cracked, giving way to that fateful split between secular nationalism and political Islam.

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May 16, 2025 • 53 mins

In October of 1908, the Ottomans lost Bulgaria to independence, Bosnia to Austria, and Crete to Greece. And then Europe is steamrolling towards for the Great War as Russia and Austria try to regain their lost imperial prestige.

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May 8, 2025 • 49 mins

After the Young Turk Revolution, the Ottoman people let loose for a while and had one big, multi-ethnic party. Long live the constitution!

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April 9, 2025 • 49 mins

Ladies and Gents, we have made it. So sit back, relax, and watch as the CUP menaces the Sultan into reinstating the Midhat Constitution.

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March 31, 2025 • 52 mins

Trouble is-a-brewing in Macedonia as the CUP infiltrates and radicalizes the Third Army and as the "Heroes of Liberty," officers Ismail Enver and Ahmed Niyazi, prepare their bands for a mutiny.

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March 19, 2025 • 44 mins

Under Dr. Sakir, the Committee of Union and Progress became the Committee of Progress and Union. Yeah, not that creative...

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March 7, 2025 • 49 mins

His name was Talaat, and he was the revolutionary mailman, delivering Salonica's mail by day and conspiring with revolutionaries and freemasons by night.

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In the summer of 1905, the Armenian Dashnaks would seek their revenge against the Red Sultan for his involvement in the Hamidian Massacres. In the process, they would earn a spot in the record books as the first ever recorded use of a car bomb. Yippee!

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With a short-lived anarchist commune, a terrorist bombing campaign, an attempted multi-ethnic Macedonian republic, and a botched Great Power intervention, the Ilinden Uprising was a colorful affair.

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Gotse Delchev, the revolutionary apostle reborn, works to construct a state within a state in Macedonia and Thrace. Yane Sandanski, his close disciple, kidnaps a protestant missionary and sets off America's very first hostage crisis.

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Everybody in the Balkans wants Macedonia. This fact makes everything a wee bit confusing.

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January 15, 2025 • 49 mins

This 1902 Congress would mark a major turning point in the Young Turk movement. But most importantly, we have finally made it to the twentieth century.

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January 8, 2025 • 46 mins

Wherein Muhammed Abduh and al-Afghani try to bring Islam back to its previous glory by reopening the gate of ijtihad and then kicking the British out of the East.

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December 26, 2024 • 47 mins

So, Ahmed Riza was a positivist. But, like, what does that even mean? "Order and Progress!"

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December 17, 2024 • 42 mins

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Committee of Union and Progress...

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December 10, 2024 • 45 mins

Before there were Young Turks, there were Young Ottomans. But just to make it extra confusing for those of us living in the future, everyone called them Young Turks. "Long Live the Fatherland!"

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As the Hamidian Massacres raged throughout the Ottoman Empire, a small group of Armenian Dashnaks decided to takeover the Imperial Ottoman Bank, hoping that the Great Powers might finally come to their aid.

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November 5, 2024 • 47 mins

From 1894-1896, widespread chaos and violence gripped the Ottoman Empire amidst the Hamidian Massacres. Armenian freedom fighters, known as the fedayi, would do everything they could to defend their communities.

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The Armenian revolutionary parties all have a history, and that history is called the radical Russian underground. Out of People's Will came the Armenian Dashnaks. Out the Marxist Emancipation of Labor Group came the Armenian Hunchaks.

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