An older version of this episode was read by a computer voice - this one is read by yours truly.   

Officers and Cossacks are shocked and confused by the Russian Revolution. But they rally and begin a war to overthrow the new regime.   

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Credits:   I do not own the music or clips featured here. 

They are in the public domain or else fair use.   

Sergei Prokofiev, 'Battle on the Ice' from Alexander Nevsky (1938) 

Fall of Eagles, John Elliot, Stuart Burge, 1974, Episode 12 

Anastasia, Dir Don Bluth & Gary Goldman, 1997  

Ten Days that Shook the World, documentary, 1967, Orson Welles; Aleksandrov, Granger, Murphy, incl footage from Eisenstein 

And Quiet Flows the Don (novel) Mikhail Sholokhov,  trans Stephen Garry, read by W Kandinsky [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5RB...]

And Quiet Flows the Don (film), dir Gerasimov, 1957-58 Groucho Marx, 'Groucho's Story of Resigning from Friars Club', Mike del Caribe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkB5h...) 

'Rasputin' by Boney M, 1978. Hansa, Sire, Atlantic