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Leading the People, Together With the People
Uniform Title
Ведущие людей, вместе с народом. English.
Title
Leading the People, Together With the People c. 1982, 1982.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital.
Physical Description
online resource (video file 0:58:26) : Sound, Colour.
Local Notes
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Notes
Sponsored by Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
Contributors: Sarakhatunov, Boris; Usanov, Viktor.
Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
Reproduction of: Ведущие людей, вместе с народом USSR, c. 1982.
Description based on online resource (viewed on 17 October, 2017).
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Summary
A documentary about the history of the Russian Communist Party. [WARNING: scenes featuring dead soldiers.]. Features rich archive material of the Russian Revolution period in St. Petersburg, including newsreel footage of the February Revolution with Tsar banners being pulled down and prisoners being released. Also shows demonstrations against Kerensky and the bourgeois Provisional Government in the July 4th riots. Discusses the October Revolution, the storming of the Winter Palace and the All Russian’ Congress of Soviets the next day. Recounts how the USSR formed in 1922, followed by the difficult early attempts at industrialisation and agricultural reform, including the first five-year plan in 1929. Covers the electrification and industrial projects of the 1930s, the Second World War and its aftermath, modernisation in the 1950s, and new towns and scenes of life in the 1980s. NB: This is an alternative edit of "Leading the People".
Variant and related titles
Socialism on film: the cold war and international propaganda.
Format
Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2018
Series
Lenin & the Russian Revolution; The Second World War & the Rise of Fascism
Wars & Revolutions
Credits
Contributors: Sarakhatunov, Boris; Usanov, Viktor.
Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, sponsoring body.
Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow, production company.
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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