Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
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.
- Year : 2017
- Country : United Kingdom
- Genre : Documentary, History
- Studio : BBC, Oxford Film and Television
- Keyword : world war i, docudrama, russian revolution (1917), rise to power, russian history, communism, imperial russia, 1910s, leninism, bolshevism, soviet union history, lenin, menshevism
- Director : Renny Bartlett
- Cast : Juliet Stevenson, Nicholas Asbury, Milo Twomey, Nicholas Cowell, Jonny McPherson, Helen Rappaport