June 27, 1905: The ‘Potemkin’ Makes History

Hungry sailors are not to be trifled with. That’s what happened aboard the Russian battleship the Potemkin on June 27, 1905. Spoiled meat sparked a storm of rebellion that echoed across revolutionary-minded Russia.  The US Naval Institute helps contextualize things: “For a century before 1905, Imperial Russia was…

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