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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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Assessing Soviet Nuclear Capability (1985 Video)

Producer

Roger Penfound

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

The US intelligence community has come to rely increasingly on sophisticated technology to assess Soviet nuclear capabilities. The interpretation of data by the different branches of the intelligence...

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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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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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Negotiating Arms Control (1986 Video)

Producer

Roger Penfound

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Explores the process of arms control negotiation from both a US and a Soviet perspective. Negotiators and observers from both sides discuss the difficulties that arise when opposing delegators negotiate...

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Chapayev (1935 Film)

Director

Georgi Vasiliev; Sergei Vasiliev

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Chapayev was a Red Army commander who fought against Czech and Kolchak forces in the Civil War. He was killed in action and became a folk hero when a book about him was published in the early twenties by his...

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Cuba and the Cold War Collection: From Revolution to Missile Crisis (2009)

Subject

History

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...

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Soviet Propaganda Animation (2 Volumes) (2007)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £14.99

This collection of animated propaganda was recently recovered from Russia’s television vaults. For the first time in ninety years the West can now see how the Soviets portrayed them. This unique...

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Russian Concept, The: Reflections on Russian Non-Conformist Art (2010)

Director

Igor Sopronenko

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £140.00 [Institutional rate]

This documentary explores the conceptual trend in nonconformist art of 1960-1980s in the USSR: art that arose out of a a spirit of resistance to the government-imposed style of Socialist Realism from the...

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Abc News: The Fall of Communism (2002)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 80 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

Presents the history, psychology and ideology of communism and attempts to put into perspective the the reasons underlying the fall of the system—from the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, to independence...

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