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Last Bolshevik, The (1994)

aka: Tombeau d’Alexandre, Le

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another in the form of six video "letters" sent to him...

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Kgb - The Early Years (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w./col. 55 min., 2001 sale: £2.99 (inclusive)

The KGB had its beginning at the start of the Bolshevik movement. This video explores the formation of the Cheka - the All Russia Extraordinary Commission for Fighting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage - by...

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France ActualitÉs. No 27 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in June 1944 shows: 1) Franco meets Civil War veterans at Alicante; 2) Funeral of Patriach Sergins of Lithuania and Latvia after his murder by Bolshevik agents; 3)...

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1945 Newsreel (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Includes preparations for resistance in Berlin, the German withdrawal from Budapest and East German women talking about ‘Bolshevik atrocities’.

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Revolution That Wasn’t, The (2010)

aka: Revolutsioon, Mida Polnud

Director

Aliona Polunina

Subject

History; Politics & government

In Russia 2007, the opposition to Putin’s regime is gathering forces for the next presidential elections. The film follows a father and his son in the National Bolshevik Party: a dream of crime and...

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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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Great Way, The (1927 Film)

aka: Veliky Put

Director

Esther Shub

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This and its companion film THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material,...

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Soviets, The (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1999 sale: £7.50 (inclusive)

Series on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, combining reconstructions, archive footage and documentary evidence to focuson the turbulent relationship between communist Russia and the West. In five...

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Decline of Tsarism, The (1988 Video)

Producer

Ian Thompson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Uses a variety of sources including a series of early colour photographs commissioned for Nicholas II and a painting by Il’ya Repin entitled ‘Religious Procession in the Kirsk Gubernia’, to show how...

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1914-18 (2 Parts) (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 204, 150 min., 2000 sale: £33.98 (inclusive) pair

Television series drawing on historians, archive film, modern scenes, stills, letter, diaries and paintings to bring to life the experiences of thought who fought the war on every side as well those on the...

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