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Lenin in October (1937 Film)

Director

Mikhail Romm

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The first sound feature film to portray Lenin deals with his early life. Lenin is shown to be the guiding genius of the Revolution.

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Art in Revolution (1972 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Introductory courses in history and theory of art; Russian art and architecture.*

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Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, The (2002 Film)

aka: Padeniye Dinasti Romanovikh

Director

Esther Shub

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

This and its companion film THE GREAT WAY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material, they were produced...

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Russian Revolution in Colour (2005)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £9.99 (GU); £12.99 m(P)

The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the world forever. Almost overnight, an entire society was destroyed and replaced with one of the biggest and most radical social experiments ever seen. Within a...

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Art of Russia (3 Parts) (2009)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 50 minutes), £195.00 each part or £438.75 the set

A three-part BBC series in which historian Andrew Graham Dixon unlocks the mystery, variety and history of Russia’s unique art. He begins with a celebration of the great age of the icon, when Russia was at...

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October (1928)

aka: Sergei Eisenstein’s October

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £24.99

Eisenstein’s feature film was reissued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution which it reconstructs. Original negatives from the world’s film archives were collected to present a print which...

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Life Under Stalin (1999 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2006 sale: £39.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage and sound recordings to explore Russian life under Josef Stalin. Covers: Stalin’s leadership struggle with Trotsky and his rise to power; the collectivisation of agriculture and...

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Lenin: A Biography (1970 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Produced for the 1970 Lenin Centenary. Deals with Lenin’s early years, his family and education, his leadership of the Russian revolutionary movement, his various exiles, the 1917 revolution and the years...

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Russia 1917: Countdown to the Revolution (2017)

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

BBC documentary looking at how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took control of Russia in just a few months in 1917. Dramatic re-enactments bring to life clashes, seminal speeches and the storming of the Winter...

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Music from the Flames: Shostakovich (1978)

Producer

Ian Engelmann

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

This film tells the story of the Russian composer’s life covering his training during the 1917 revolution, the criticism he faced during the 1930s when he was dubbed a formalist by the authorities, and how...

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