The Fall of the Monarchies

Between 1905 and 1922, five of the world's most powerful monarchies--the Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the Romanovs of Russia, the Osmanlis of the Ottoman Empire, and the Aisin-Gioros of China--were all brought down by a spectacular chain reaction of events that were unprecedented in an earlier age. This deep dive video tells the story of how these five dynasties, who at the beginning of the 20th century controlled the fates of a third of the world's population, lost their power through the series of wars and revolutions that marked one of the most chaotic periods in human history, which included World War I, the Chinese and Russian Revolutions and much more.

There is a companion video to this one, specifically dealing with the July Crisis that began World War I:    • The July Crisis Explained: How World ...  

Sources for this video include Edmond Taylor The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1905-1922 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963); Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994 ed.); Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991) and Nicholas and Alexandra (New York: Random House, 2011 ed.); Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The 1917 Revolution in Petrograd (New York: W.W. Norton, 1976).

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Chapters:
00:00-07:50: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
07:50-23:35: The Monarchies
23:35-33:57: Age of Revolutions
33:57-45:42: Unbalancing Europe
45:42-54:43: Big Unhappy Family
54:43-1:05:30: The 1905 Revolution
1:05:30-1:15:00: The Young Turks
1:15:00-1:26:11: Double Ten
1:26:11-1:34:21: The Tinderbox
1:34:21-1:43:39: The July Crisis
1:43:39-1:54:59: World War I
1:54:59-2:05:21: The 1917 Revolution (First One)
2:05:21-2:17:21: The 1917 Revolution (Second One)
2:17:21-2:22:45: World War I (Continued)
2:22:45-2:31:41: The Final Days
2:31:41-2:39:33: The Cellar
2:39:33-2:45:46: The End of the Ottomans
2:45:46-2:57:50: What Happened to Everyone
2:57:50-3:00:47: Conclusion