1 Choices
Journalist and writer Martin Sixsmith introduces a series of essays on the artistic impact of the Russian Revolution and considers the choices, good and bad, it offered to artists.
Ten contemporary cultural specialists look back at the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on artists of the time - in film, theatre, poetry, dance and beyond.
Journalist and writer Martin Sixsmith opens the series with a consideration of the choices, good and bad, open to artists during and after the Revolution.
Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Producer Alison Hindell
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