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Episode 18: Fat Rodzyanko Has Sent me Some Nonsense

Fat Rodzyanko Has Sent me Some Nonsense

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Russia had a short-lived democracy, brought about by mass strikes and demonstrations.

Classic BBC series. Following the October Revolution, Russian enthusiasm for the war heartens the Allies and alarms the Germans.

This episode turns to Russia and its short-lived democracy, brought about by mass strikes and demonstrations. The tsar was blamed for all evils and forced to abdicate. The new enthusiasm in Russia heartened the Allies and alarmed the Germans, who had calculated that a Russian revolution would put an end to war on the Eastern Front.

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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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