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Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 49 min.
Season Runtime: 402 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

The Second Russian Revolution (1991)

Season 1 (May 31, 1991, midnight)

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

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The Second Russian Revolution (1991)

Season 1 (May 31, 1991, midnight)

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

Genres: Documentary, History

Keywords: tmdb.politics, tmdb.post-soviet-union

Network: BBC Two

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: Russian, English

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John Woodvine
John Woodvine
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze

May 31, 1991, midnight 0.0

S1E1 - 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.
June 7, 1991, midnight 0.0

S1E2 - 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.
June 14, 1991, midnight 0.0

S1E3 - 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.
June 21, 1991, midnight 0.0

S1E4 - 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.
June 28, 1991, midnight 0.0

S1E5 - 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.
July 5, 1991, midnight 0.0

S1E6 - 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.
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 49 min.
Season Runtime: 402 min.
Released: May 30, 1991
Last Air Date: Nov. 30, 1991, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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