The Second Russian Revolution(1991)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1991-05-31
Average Runtime: 50m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 8
The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.
Keywords
politicspost soviet union
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Enter Gorbachev
Air Date: 1991-05-31
How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbach...
E02
The Battle for Glasnost
Air Date: 1991-06-07
Follows the attempted coup while Gorbachev was away in March 1988, at how the Kremlin tried to cover up the Chernobyl...
E03
The Yeltsin File
Air Date: 1991-06-14
How Boris Yeltsin rose to the top as a Soviet Communist Party official and how he came to fall out with Mikhail Gorba...
E04
Revolution from Below
Air Date: 1991-06-21
The first Congress of People's Deputies was elected in 1989, but a new rebelliousness was soon unleashed. Soviet mine...
E05
Breaking Ranks
Air Date: 1991-06-28
At first nationalism in Lithuania, Armenia and elsewhere was encouraged, but the nationalists were demanding independ...
E06
End of the Beginning
Air Date: 1991-07-05
Gorbachev visited London in 1991 to ask world leaders for aid, and they demanded that he move to an open market econo...
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