Timewatch
Season 6 Episode 7 - Images of a Revolution
What really happened in Russia in October 1917? How far can we rely on the vivid films from the period to give us a true picture of the Revolution and, of incidents such as the storming of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg? Christopher Andrew, in a critical examination of documentary evidence and the memories of Russian emigres who were eyewitnesses to the events of 1917, steers a path through the propaganda, censorship, carelessness and sheer misunderstanding that have distorted the historical record in Russia and the West for the past 70 years.
Episodes in Season 6
Codes of Conduct
50 min
Faces of Cromwell
60 min
Symptoms of an Age
50 min
Fateful Century
50 min
Times of Change
50 min
Affairs of State
55 min
Images of a Revolution
50 min
The Art of Chivalry
50 min
Judgment in Jerusalem
50 min