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The Second Russian Revolution

The Second Russian Revolution

1991•50m•Documentary
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The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.

StatusEnded
Runtime50m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 31, 1991

Episodes

E149m

Enter Gorbachev

How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbachev as his successor, but the nomination was suppressed for two years by the conservatives.

May 31, 1991

E249m

The Battle for Glasnost

Follows the attempted coup while Gorbachev was away in March 1988, at how the Kremlin tried to cover up the Chernobyl disaster. Afterwards, glasnost flourished and Soviet society opened up.

Jun 7, 1991

E349m

The Yeltsin File

How Boris Yeltsin rose to the top as a Soviet Communist Party official and how he came to fall out with Mikhail Gorbachev.

Jun 14, 1991

E449m

Revolution from Below

The first Congress of People's Deputies was elected in 1989, but a new rebelliousness was soon unleashed. Soviet miners protested and, for the first time since Lenin, the State gave in.

Jun 21, 1991

E549m

Breaking Ranks

At first nationalism in Lithuania, Armenia and elsewhere was encouraged, but the nationalists were demanding independence. Gorbachev's aides reveal what he said to Ceausescu of Romania, Landsbergis of Lithuania and other leaders of communist-bloc countries of the time.

Jun 28, 1991

E649m

End of the Beginning

Gorbachev visited London in 1991 to ask world leaders for aid, and they demanded that he move to an open market economy. His plan to do so failed. The programme contains tapes of Gorbachev’s meetings with Deputies and interviews with Yeltsin and Shevardnadze.

Jul 5, 1991

Actors

John Woodvine

John Woodvine

Self - Narrator (voice)

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