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Russia Under Soviet Power (1977 Video)

Director

John Macpherson

Producer

Paul Dukes

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Attempts to make use of one of the propaganda techniques developed in revolutionary Russia, the animated poster. Six actors declaim the messages of Reds and Whites from a constructivist set and those scenes...

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Russian Civil War (2 Vols), The (1992 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min. each, 2001 sale: £2.99 (inclusive) each

Covers the consequences of Lenin’s return from Swiss exile to overthrow temporary prime minister Kerensky, the founding of the Red Army in early 1918, the treaty with the Germans at Brest-litovosk and the...

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Ivan the Terrible (2 Parts) (1945 Film, Video)

aka: Ivan Groznyj

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

1 (1944): Story of Tsar Ivan IV - Ivan the Terrible. Begins with his crowning as Tsar of Russia, follows his struggle to consolidate the Russian Empire, freeing it from Eastern domination, through his...

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Russian Idea, The (1995 Video)

Director

Sergei Selyanov

Producer

Tatiana Yakovleva

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 53 min., 1999 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Director Sergei Selyanov links Russia’s cinema to the national character, with its desire for revolution and search for Utopia. He mines a rich source of material in an attempt to prove his thesis, using...

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Stalin: Terror and Transformation (1992 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

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

Covers: Stalin’s rise to power; his assault on Russian backwardness; the scale and effect of the purges; Russia and World War II; Stalin’s place in Russian history. Presented by Dr C J Read with...

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Partisans - War Behind the Lines (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage to highlight the importance of the organised civilian groups who fought military actions or performed acts of espionage, sabotage, disruption and protest against occupying forces. Looks...

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Battleship Potemkin (1925 Video)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. sd (music only). b&w. 70 min.

Feature film reconstructing the events which took place in the town of Odessa during the Social Democratic movement of 1905-1907.

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Khodorkovsky (2012)

Director

Cyril Tuschi

Subject

Politics & government; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £17.99

Documentary about the rise and fall of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who shot to the upper echelons of Russia’s wealthy elite before being imprisoned. Though Khodorkovsky was officially...

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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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Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein, The (1987)

Director

Gian Carlo Bertelli

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $7.49

The life and work of Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), the Russian film director. Includes rare material from archives around the world and previously unknown drawings and sketches from the Eisenstein Museum in...

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