The Red Army's Food War: How Feeding Soldiers Doomed Russia

In the chaos of the Russian Civil War, feeding the Red Army became a weapon of terror. This episode explores the prodrazvyorstka—the forced grain requisition that stripped peasants of their harvest and fueled the Tambov Rebellion. We follow the brutal logic of the Prodarmiya, the armed units Lenin sent to seize grain, and meet figures like Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Alexander Antonov, whose peasant army fought back. Through letters, telegrams, and eyewitness accounts, we see how the Bolsheviks' food policy turned the countryside into a warzone, sowed the seeds of the Volga Famine, and set the stage for Stalin's collectivization. Lucas and Luna revisit the moral arithmetic of revolution: was it worth it, and who paid the price? A story of bureaucracy, bayonets, and bread.

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