Synopsis
An investigation of the April Crisis and Lenin's speech in Petrograd.
- Programme: Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- History | Russia, 1894-1945 | The revolutions of 1917 | The Bolshevik Revolution
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