Trotsky

We live in a time of turmoil that could become more violent and destructive if we fail to learn from human history. This dramatized and often inaccurate version of historical events surrounding the Russian Revolution drives an important point home: violent revolutions are extremely destructive and risky. They unleash the darkest drives within people and allow sociopaths to take the reigns. The production (including the script, dialogue, acting, effects, sets, titles with historical detail on characters) is excellent. I was pulled in by the drama and was not let down. As a student of history who studied the Russian Revolution in grad school, I was aware of important distortions, but dramatic films are statements, not histories. This statement is well made. I am intrigued by the potential impact in Russian society today, where a dictator is willing to lie and kill to maintain power. Is this a statement about Russia today? Is it a statement to the world as the nativist, repressive and violent tendencies of governments are on the rise? Is it about the Russian past, an effort to remind the Russian people about what went down and what might happen again? Perhaps it is all these things. No matter it is a well done series, well worth watching.

Great series, great actors. Im a French Canadian so I only speak French and English, I listened to this on Netflix in Russian with French subtitles and loved it. There are some divergences from reality (I wont say to keep this spoiler free, but other viewers have reported somes here in other reviews if you would like to see) and its more of a sensational series that a documentary (think the recent Spartacus iteration on Starz, I think) but I had loads of fun watching it and learned some things on the life of this fascinating and polarizing historical figure. Just make sure to fact-check afterwards. For mature audience, as there violence, nudity, sex scenes and some very hard-to-watch antisemitic scenes (as that was the reality of this era).

While no one can know the exact history behind the walls of the revolution. I found this series mesmerizing. I love all history and sometimes it's nice to put it into historical fiction. You can only watch so many documentaries. Try it out. Rich

Portrays the way of Trotsky from naive idealist to the bloody tyrant. It is very deep series, which could not be understand by those who are fulfilled by some sort of ideology, but only by those who know that our world is very complex and complicated.

As the Pole, by the nature very critical of both white tsarist and red communist Russia, I must admit that these series are quite objective, impartial and fair.

Only one thing strikes me - series completely omitted the important fact, i.e. who and where stopped the world revolution. But this is understandable.

It is often entertaining and has high production values. But it fails completely as a historical series. It's willfully inaccurate. Being produced by Russian state tv it comes with a message that an authoritarian regime is best left alone, what takes its place can only be worse.