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.
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- Released
- Production
- BBC, Oxford Films
Keywords
- world war i
- docudrama
- russian revolution (1917)
- rise to power
- russian history
- communism
- imperial russia
- 1910s
- leninism
- bolshevism
- soviet union history
- lenin
- menshevism
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Top Cast
Juliet Stevenson as Self - Narrator (voice)
Nicholas Asbury as Vladimir Lenin
Milo Twomey as Leon Trotsky
Nicholas Cowell as Joseph Stalin
Jonny McPherson as Alexander Kerensky
Helen Rappaport as Self - Writer
Orlando Figes as Self - Writer
Simon Sebag-Montefiore as Self - Writer
Top Crew
Renny Bartlett · Director
John E.R. Hardy · Composer
James Swift · Cinematographer
Graeme Dawson · Editor
Charlotte Sacher · Producer
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