RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN COLOR

The program revolves around the sailors of the island naval base of Kronstadt, who zealously took up the revolutionary cause in 1917 only to have their hopes (and lives) brutally shattered by Lenin’s creation of a police state and years of civil war between the Whites and Reds. Scholars and experts present new perspectives on the events, while narration and primary source quotes assert that the Bolshevik movement did not degenerate under Stalin, but was rotten at its core from the outset. Warning: brief images of atrocities.