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.

• BBC
• Oxford Film and Television
• Juliet Stevenson
• Nicholas Asbury
• Milo Twomey
• Nicholas Cowell
• Jonny McPherson
• Helen Rappaport
• Orlando Figes
• Simon Sebag-Montefiore