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Russia - the bear moves west

Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny

• 43 mins

Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West

Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire

• 33 mins

Turkey - The Military and Decline

EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna

• 31 mins

Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act

Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One

• 38 mins

Turkey - Ottoman or Turk

A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny

• 27 mins

China - the first emperor

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?

• 44 mins

China - to kowtow or not to kowtow

Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars

• 41 mins

China: imperial collapse

The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen

• 41 mins

China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao

The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

• 41 mins

How to Invent a Country: Taiwan

They look so sturdy on the map, but what is a country and when do they take shape?

• 29 mins