Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Russian male journalists

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  1. Lenin

    Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled him to develop a model to export communism and build an original political system that remained intact for over seventy years.

    16 March 2000

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    Featuring: Robert Service, Vitali Vitaliev

     
  2. Tolstoy

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and times of the 19th century Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, whose novels such as War and Peace gave expression to the compelling moral and social questions of their day.

    25 April 2002

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    Featuring: A. N. Wilson, Catriona Kelly, Sarah Hudspith