Five dramatised documentaries by Vitaly Shentalinsky using material from the KGB's literary archive.

Presented by Professor James Riordan. Two thousand writers, intellectuals and artists were imprisoned during the 1920s and 30s. Fifteen hundred were executed or died, but their writings and confessions were preserved by the KGB in what amounts to an alternative literary history of the Soviet Union.

Babel's grandson recalls the legacy of a writer who rode with the Cossacks in Russia's bloody civil war and gave the world his short story collection Red Cavalry. With Stephen Greif as Babel and Jon Strickland as the interrogator. Producer Mark Burman