Orlando Figes
Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London
1 episode
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Tsar Alexander II's assassination
Melvyn Bragg discusses the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, by a gang of Russian terrorists, which led to start of the revolutionary era in Russia.
6 January 2005
Also featuring: Dominic Lieven, Catriona Kelly