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3) Trotsky
Pub. Date
[2012], c1988
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrait of one of the key figures of the 20th century - Lenin's companion and Stalin's favorite target - uses nearly 1,500 hitherto unpublished photos and film clips to tell the story of Leon Trotsky's intellectual and political role in the birth of the Soviet Union; his leadership positions before, during, and after the Revolution; the death of Lenin and the exile of Trotsky; the Stalinization of the Soviet Union, the elimination...
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Description
Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik movement, was instrumental in bringing communism to Russia. However, he later clashed with Joseph Stalin, who arranged to have Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party and forced to leave the Soviet Union. Trotsky accepted an offer of asylum in Mexico in 1936, and from there began angrily denouncing Stalin's increasing powers and the direction he was taking the Soviet Union. In 1940, a Soviet agent...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2007
Language
English
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Description
A group of Serbian nationalists were determined to kill the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Two of the assassins had bombs and one, a student named Gavril Princep, had a pistol. When the bombs failed, the Archduke's car took another route and almost stopped outside the café where Princep was sitting. Within seconds, the Archduke and his wife were mortally wounded. The events of that day on Sunday 28 June led to the outbreak of World War I. This...
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Mexican painter and architect, Diego Rivera, is best known as a muralist who established the Mexican Mural Movement with fellow artists Siqueiros and Orozco. This film paints a fascinating picture of the man and his often controversial work, and includes interviews with Carlos Fuentes, Dolores Olmedo and Carlos Monsivais. Home movies with Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky indicate Rivera's complicated relationship with the Communist Party that resulted...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered—in its spirit if not in its actual words—to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical scholars, Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones offer a historical-descriptive treatment that includes both rhetorical analysis and a narrative of the drafting of the speech. They consider Reagan’s focus...
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