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Reds

Reds

Fri, 25 Dec 1981

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

Tue, 10 Oct 2017

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

Sun, 10 Jun 2018

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…

Anniversary of the Revolution

Anniversary of the Revolution

Thu, 07 Nov 1918

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.

The History of the Civil War

The History of the Civil War

Wed, 01 Jun 1921

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat

Wed, 01 Jan 1919

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.

I Have Lived Many Lives

I Have Lived Many Lives

Sat, 01 Jan 1983

A portrait of the leading female Bolshevik (and later Worker’s Opposition) revolutionary leader Alexandra Kollontai using her own words.