The Second Russian Revolution
The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.
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- Ep 1
1.Enter Gorbachev
31-05-199149mHow 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...
- Ep 2
2.The Battle for Glasnost
07-06-199149mFollows 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 o...
- Ep 3
3.The Yeltsin File
14-06-199149mHow Boris Yeltsin rose to the top as a Soviet Communist Party official and how he came to fall out with Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Ep 4
4.Revolution from Below
21-06-199149mThe 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 gav...
- Ep 5
5.Breaking Ranks
28-06-199149mAt 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 Rom...
- Ep 6
6.End of the Beginning
05-07-199149mGorbachev 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 G...
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