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“Tsar to Lenin” is the only documentary film comprised entirely of actual film footage from the Russian Revolution, and the periods immediately before and after. This extraordinary footage was compiled by Herman Axelbank, who spent years traveling through Eastern Europe, gathering it using any means at his disposal. Released in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, in which the bulk of the Soviet revolutionary generation was physically exterminated, the film received a warm reception from critics, but was quickly suppressed by the Stalinist Communist Party in the US.
Narrated by Max Eastman, sometimes known as the first American Trotskyist, this film is required viewing for anyone trying to understand the historical significance of Russian Revolution, and its implications in the present period.
You can watch the preview at: http://tsartolenin.com/
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