What happens
The Pacific Story examines the Buryat Mongols, a people of Siberia living around Lake Baikal, and their struggle against Russian and Tsarist oppression. The episode traces the 1905 uprising, the Buryat resistance during the Revolution and the counter-revolutionary intervention by White Russians and Japanese forces, and the eventual victory of the Red Army and local partisans. It then describes the creation of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic in 1923 and the republic's development in agriculture, industry and education. Speakers present the case as a model that other peoples of Asia and the Pacific are watching closely. The original air date is January 6, 1946.
Siberia around Lake Baikal, Buryat-Mongolia, including the village of Verkhneudinsk, from the Tsarist era through the Russian Revolution and the 1920s.
Characters: Buryat Mongols, Noyons, Cossacks, Red Army partisans, Japanese officer, Valen Ungarn, Lenin, Stalin
Listen for: The shift from the 1905 uprising and the counter-revolutionary intervention to the Red Army victory, and Dr. Sproul's commentary on Soviet handling of minority peoples.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.