Three programmes about the end of the Soviet
Union as we know it.
What is to be the fate of the Soviet peoples as they confront the end of a system that has lasted over 70 years?
1: The Second Blockade
As the frost of the grim Soviet winter begins to bite hard and the shops stay empty, Leningrad faces its worst winter since the great siege of the Second World War.
How do people survive such shortages?
Gordon Clough reports. Producer Anne Koch