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Soviet Courts of Justice (1980 Film)

Subject

Law; Russian studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses courts of lustice in the Soviet Union. Includes a court sequence dealing with a road accident and an interview with the Minister of Justice. The election of judges and people’s assessors is also...

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Shto Novovo (What’s New?): An Elegy for the Union (2004)

aka: What’s New?

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £10.00

A documentary about post-Soviet transition in Kyrgyzstan after a decade of structural reform. While illustrating the traditional pastoral life of the Kyrgyz (animated by Kyrgyz music) the film addresses...

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Age Seven in the Ussr (1992)

Director

Michael Apted

Subject

Anthropology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £40.00

A portrait of the former Soviet Union painted by seven-year-old children from the length and breadth of the USSR. At a time of breathtaking and devastating political and economic change, how do Soviet...

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Red Army (2015)

Director

Gabe Polsky

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £7.99

Feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army ice hockey team.

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Russia’s Secret War (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Presents evidence that Stalin was involved in the Korean War and over 70,000 members of the Soviet Union’s armed forces took part.

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Soviet Newsreel No. 69 (November 1943) (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The five items depict the repair and rebuilding of villages and industry destroyed by the Germans. In Stalinogorsk the coalmine, deliberately flooded during the occupation, is once again productive. At...

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Reflections on the New World Order (1992 Video)

Director

Anjana Patel

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Cabaret reflecting recently past events including the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the Reagan and Thatcher years. Performers include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jean Binta Breeze, Jeremy Hardy,...

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Sixth of the Earth, A (1926 Film)

Director

Dziga Vertov

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Commissioned by the Commissariat for Exports as a documentary aimed at the western countries to show the export potential of the Soviet Union. Vertov mounted ten expeditions to get the material for the film....

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Soviet Newsreel Nos. 11-12 (February 1943) (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An example of the newsreels that the Soviet Union produced during the Second World War. They normally contained four or five items showing how the people were, in various ways, contributing to the...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 8 (February 1943): Special Issue: Victory on the Stalingrad Front (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Covers the last stages of the battle. Lays particular stress on the magnitude of the victory - the number of German dead, equipment abandoned and destroyed, high ranking officers surrendering (including von...

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