Collection search - Communism : To Find a Tartar, Part 1

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT FILM LIBRARY

1983-0111

Film

1 of 1

1965-04-12

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director/script, Raymond de Boer; producer, Cameron Graham; editing, Warner Troyer; technical producer, Lucien Plante; host, Frank McGee

Television public affairs program hosted by Frank McGee. The first of two episodes this program looks at the changing face of Russian communism, from the end of the Tsarist regime to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. Prepared and presented by historian Edward Crankshaw, this program consists of footage depicting Russian society and events from the turn of the century to 1939, they include: the fall of Tsarist Russia to the Provisional government in 1917; World War I; the Western invasion of Russia; Stalin and reconstructionism; Stalin's purges and alliances; and the 1939 invasion of Poland. Excerpts or clips depicting these events from the Russian films Eisenstein's OCTOBER and Dovzhenko's ZEMLAYA are included. <28mn>

English

1554-43

Open

V1 8201-0035

GAD 0FD547

Under copyright.

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