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The Second Russian Revolution

Season 1 · Episode 4

Revolution from Below

0.049mJune 21, 1991

The first Congress of People's Deputies was elected in 1989, but a new rebelliousness was soon unleashed. Soviet miners protested and, for the first time since Lenin, the State gave in.

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Episodes

Episode 1Enter Gorbachev
Episode 2The Battle for Glasnost
Episode 3The Yeltsin File
Episode 4Revolution from Below
Episode 5Breaking Ranks
Episode 6End of the Beginning