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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...
FRONTLINE investigates Vladimir Putin’s remarkable ascent from unemployed spy to modern-day czar, and the persistent accusations of criminality and corruption that have accompanied that rise. It traces...
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...
This series tells the inside story of how Vladimir Putin, a consummate political operator with a background in the KGB, become a valued ally of the West. After eight years as President of Russia and four...
Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, on the careers of great dancers. The first is on the great Russian dancers Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev, the second on the...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Vladimir Nabakov originally broadcast on Radio 4’s REVIEW on 4/10/1969. Vladimir Nabokov talks to James Mossman about: his view of other writers and the difference...
Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott...
Uses film from the Pathè archive showing Russia in the years before, during, and after the Revolution, ending with Lenin’s funeral in 1924, but the sequences are used not to tell the historical story of...
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...
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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