Mutiny

• 1996 ----- color ----- 56 min ----- vhs
• (Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, The series, Part 5) By 1917, men, armies and nations were nearing a breaking point. For individual soldiers, it emerged as "shell shock," a personal withdrawal from an intolerable reality. For armies, it was outright rebellion; half the French army mutinied in 1917, refusing to undertake senseless attacks. The question is not why there was mutiny--but why did it take so long to erupt? Shows how the strain could be felt on the homefront, as well as how the populations became restless and resentful. And the greatest mutiny of all was the Russian Revolution--an uprising that reverberates to this day. (Closed-Captioned)
• Topics: (British Isles, Europe, Germanics, History: British, History: European, History: Russian, East European and Central Asian, Political Science: European, Political Science: Russian, East European and Central Asian, Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Soviet Union, War and Peace)