The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia

Nicholas II and the Russian Empire (1x1)

Fecha de emisión: Mar 20, 1998

This opening lecture includes discussion of the problems facing Russian peasants and workers in the early 1900s. The Bolshevik seizure of power could have succeeded only in a country with a discredited government, ethnic resentments, and social antagonisms.