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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...
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...
Documentary series about the Evenki (formerly the Tungus), who are scattered all over eastern Siberia. They are a nomadic tribe who move with the household and reindeer throughout the year, never having a...
An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...
Series examining the government of Mikhail Gorbachev. 1 (director David Ash): How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbachev as his...
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...
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...
Examines a wide range of folk theatre, traditional seasonal customs and entertainments in Russia: the wandering minstrels, the revels for Christmas and Shrovetide; the great fairs; performing bears; the...
Depicts the struggle of Peter the Great to open up Russia - a landlocked nation - to the sea; and Catherine the Great’s desire to bring the values of Western civilisation into Russian daily life. The...
A history of Jewish socialism between 1881 and the First World War. It deals not only with Jewish socialism inside Russia under the last two Czars, but with socialism as an international export, via over two...
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