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Start the Week: Russia: Tsars to Putin

Russia: Tsars to Putin

11/01/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Russia: Tsars to Putin

With Sebag Montefiore, Amanda Vickery, Arkady Ostrovsky and David Aaronovitch.

Andrew Marr discusses Russia with Simon Sebag Montefiore, Amanda Vickery, Arkady Ostrovsky and David Aaronovitch.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at Russia from the heyday of the Soviet Empire to its transformation under Putin. The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore writes about the Romanovs, the most successful dynasty of modern times, while Amanda Vickery highlights a moment of defiance and triumph during WW2's siege of Leningrad. The journalist Arkady Ostrovsky charts the huge changes that have taken place, from Perestroika to corporate state. And David Aaronovitch explores the emotional pull of communism in Britain through the story of his family and their ties to The Party.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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