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Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin

Tony McKenna

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It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917...

State Funeral (2019)

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The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.

The Last Days of Stalin

Joshua Rubenstein

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A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the...

Leon Trotsky

Paul Le Blanc

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The name 'Leon Trotsky' is a controversial one. For some, he was a betrayer or a totalitarian. For...

Max Eastman: A Life

Christoph Irmscher

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The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883-1969) was a...

Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated The Death Of Stalin (2017) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Several Russian politicians desperately attempt to solve the question (by scheming, plotting and conspiring) of who is to assume leadership of the Soviet Union after the death of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953.

I'm amazed at how many films that come out I haven't heard of in advance. This being one of them. It's not my sort of film, and yet it is, all in one go. The trailer was amusing and intriguing, and I knew I had to see it. Then, as if by magic, it appeared as an Unlimited Screening.

With such a varied cast I honestly had no clue what to expect. From Michael Palin to Steve Buscemi... come on! But I, just like everyone else in the screen, was amused and left laughing. I'm not entirely sure we knew what we were watching though, not because it was confusing, but because it is a weird combination of all sorts of different things. You leave and you wonder what you really watched. One thing's for sure, I really want to read the graphic novel now.