NaN/100 votes#1 - Enter Gorbachev
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/31/1991
How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbachev as his successor, but the nomination was suppressed for two years by the conservatives.
Director: David Ash
Writer: N/A
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#2 - The Battle for Glasnost
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/7/1991
Follows the attempted coup while Gorbachev was away in March 1988, at how the Kremlin tried to cover up the Chernobyl disaster. Afterwards, glasnost flourished and Soviet society opened up.
Director: David Ash
Writer: N/A
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#3 - The Yeltsin File
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/14/1991
How Boris Yeltsin rose to the top as a Soviet Communist Party official and how he came to fall out with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Revolution from Below
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/21/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Breaking Ranks
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/28/1991
At first nationalism in Lithuania, Armenia and elsewhere was encouraged, but the nationalists were demanding independence. Gorbachev's aides reveal what he said to Ceausescu of Romania, Landsbergis of Lithuania and other leaders of communist-bloc countries of the time.
Director: Oren Jacoby
Writer: N/A
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#6 - End of the Beginning
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/5/1991
Gorbachev visited London in 1991 to ask world leaders for aid, and they demanded that he move to an open market economy. His plan to do so failed. The programme contains tapes of Gorbachev’s meetings with Deputies and interviews with Yeltsin and Shevardnadze.
Director: Angus Macqueen
Writer: N/A
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The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Enter Gorbachev" is the best rated episode of "The Second Russian Revolution" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by David Ash and written by N/A, it aired on 5/31/1991. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Battle for Glasnost".