The massacre at a workers' demonstration against food price rises in a town in South Russia in 1962... the ingenious methods used by dissidents to spread news of secret police repression... the vast network of corruption throughout the economy, notably in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan... the problems faced by a film editor entrusted with the task of making Leonid Brezhnev's speeches comprehensible after a stroke in 1976... the epic struggle to build a new railway line across the empire... This programme features further extraordinary eyewitness accounts of life and events in the Soviet Union, many never told before.
This film was first broadcast: 26 Aug 1990
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