

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Juliet Stevenson
Self - Narrator (voice)

Nicholas Asbury
Vladimir Lenin

Milo Twomey
Leon Trotsky
Nicholas Cowell
Joseph Stalin

Jonny McPherson
Alexander Kerensky
Helen Rappaport
Self - Writer
Orlando Figes
Self - Writer

Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Self - Writer
China Miéville
Self - Writer

Martin Amis
Self - Writer