Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

  • Documentary
  • History
10/10/2017
60

Storyline

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Director:
Renny Bartlett
  • world war i
  • docudrama
  • russian revolution (1917)
  • rise to power
  • russian history
  • communism
  • imperial russia
  • 1910s
  • leninism
  • bolshevism
  • soviet union history
  • lenin
  • menshevism

Videos

Cast

  • Juliet Stevenson
    Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Nicholas Asbury
    Vladimir Lenin
  • Milo Twomey
    Leon Trotsky
  • Nicholas Cowell
    Joseph Stalin
  • Jonny McPherson
    Alexander Kerensky
  • Helen Rappaport
    Self - Writer
  • Orlando Figes
    Self - Writer
  • Simon Sebag-Montefiore
    Self - Writer
  • China Miéville
    Self - Writer
  • Martin Amis
    Self - Writer
  • Bridget Kendall
    Self - Journalist
  • Victor Sebestyen
    Self - Writer
  • Vladimir Lenin
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • Vladimir Putin
    Self - Politician (archive footage)
  • Tariq Ali
    Self - Writer

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