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