June 27, 1905: The Seeds of the USSR Bloom In the Sea

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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