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Fireside - Rasputin' the Kibosh on Death

March 18, 2021 • Milktoast Media • Season 1

Alex, Cody, and Colin reflect on and wrap up Rasputin! Find out the things they said that may have been wrong and, most importantly, who won the debate! And for the first time, you'll get to hear from our esteemed editor!

And who knows...you may even get a sneak peek at next week’s episode!

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Editing by Hannah Burkhardt

Hosted by Alex Smith, Cody Sharp, and Colin Sharp.

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Show Sources: (Blame us for the whoopsies, not our sources. Our sources are great.)

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Hourly History. Grigori Rasputin: A Life From Beginning to End, 2017.

Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken. Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2007.

Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (1996), pp. 32-33, 277-278.

Knoll JL 4th. The "pseudocommando" mass murderer: part I, the psychology of revenge and obliteration. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2010;38(1):87-94.

Robert Morton et. al. "Serial Murder". FBI.gov. 2021.