Lucie Pastor

In February 1917, Imperial Russia plunges into revolution. Nine months of unrest before a coup brought about an upheaval that changed the course of history and profoundly altered the future of civilisation.

504/5000 Between February and October 1917, imperial Russia, which believed itself eternal, went into revolution. Nine months of popular and spontaneous revolt, fueled by the weariness of war. Nine months of hope, freedom and democratic aspirations, which the chronicles of a French journalist based in Petrograd shed new light on. Nine months of unrest and uncertainty, before a coup d'etat overturns the course of history and profoundly changes the destiny of humanity ...

Two ex-friends from East Germany meet up after many years. One was a dissident, the other spied on him for the Stasi. One went to prison. One did not. A unsettling story of how a dictatorship spun so strong it could completely control its population.