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Episode 16: Right Is More Precious than Peace

Right Is More Precious than Peace

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The Communists come to power in Russia, while America enters into the war on 6th April.

Classic BBC series. In 1917, the October revolution brought the Communists to power in Russia, while America entered into the war on 6th April.

This episode of the 26-part classic documentary series looks at two of the most important events of the war in 1917. One was the October revolution bringing the Communists to power in Russia, the other America's entry into Europe's war on 6th April. These two events were to shape not only the outcome of the war, but of the world for the rest of the century.

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Classic BBC documentary series about the world-shattering events of 1914-1918

Classic BBC documentary series, first broadcast in 1964, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and with the voices of Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring

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