MindMatters: Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, with Richard B. Spence

History is rarely cut and dried, but important historical events are quite often portrayed in a very limited context, providing a very narrow understanding of how the world actually works. Or how the omission of a certain set of facts can almost completely upend our 'map of reality'; the commonly understood factors which brought about the Russian Revolution of 1917 being just such a story. When we can begin to ask whether or not the U.S. government was actively engaged in undermining the...