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Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution (2017)

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution (2017)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2017, October 10
Directors: Renny Bartlett
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC, Oxford Films
Cast: Milo Twomey, Nicholas Asbury, Vladimir Putin, Juliet Stevenson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Orlando Figes, Nicholas Cowell, Jonny McPherson, Helen Rappaport, Bridget Kendall, Victor Sebestyen, Vladimir Lenin

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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