How do you capture a sense of the Russian Revolution: its soaring ideals and its desperate realities; its euphoric optimism and utter despair; its putative freedoms paid for by brutish repressions; its dreams of equality dished out by savage despots? The 1917 uprising that dispatched Russia’s 300-year-old tsarist regime ushered in one of the most turbulently complex chapters of human history. This is the passage of history that the Royal Academy’s spring blockbuster sets out to examine.
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