Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Hunt for the True October: The Real Russian Revolution

The Hunt for the True October: The Real Russian Revolution

On the night of October 24, 1917, a police patrol stopped two men on the streets of St. Petersburg, but failing to recognize their quarry, the police let them pass. One of them—disguised as a tramp—was the future founder and leader of the Soviet Union: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In this program, Cambridge University’s Orlando Figes, author of A People’s Tragedy, and Vitaly Startsev, of St. Petersburg Herzen University, investigate the circumstances of the October Revolution, exploding the popular myths reinforced by Sergei Eisenstein’s film October and exploring the what-ifs that could have led to democracy in Russia instead of dictatorship. (25 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10518
Copyright date: ©1999

Part of the Series : Red Chapters: Turning Points in the History of Communism


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