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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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Soviet Newsreel No. 9 (February 1943) (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Consists of five items: scenes in Millerovo after liberation by the Red Army; evidence of crimes committed by Fascists in the village of Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoe; scenes in liberated Pyatigorsk; the...

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Georgi Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (197 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 50 min.

Deals with Georgi Zhukov’s peasant upbringing, early days in Moscow, progress in the Red Army, and subsequent clases with Joseph Stalin. Continues with his career in the Second World War as Stalin’s...

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Lenin and the Soviet State (1970 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Using rare archive footage, examines some of the problems confronting Lenin in the first years after the Revolution. Pays particular attention to the Petrograd counter-revolutionary offensive.

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Images of the Soviet Union at War 1941-1945 (1990)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Explores the role played by the British newsreels in creating and reflecting the growth of pro-Russian feeling in Britain during the second world war. When the Soviet Union was attacked by the Germans in...

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Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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Full Cycle: The Art of Komar & Melamid (1992 Video)

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Exiled Soviet artists look at America.

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