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A Great Man Felix Dzerzhinsky 1958, 1958.
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- Video
- Series:
- Lenin & the Russian Revolution
- Wars & Revolutions
- Standardized Title:
- Подвиг (Феликс Дзержинский). English.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 0:56:38) : Sound, Black and White.
- Place of Publication:
- 1958,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital.
- Summary:
- Biography of the Polish born Felix Dzerzhinsky, who founded the Cheka movement, set with unique archive material. Features stills of a ransacked Winter Palace and moving footage of large crowds in Leningrad hours after the October Revolution. Trams distributing leaflets to the crowds. Stills of Dzerzhinsky throughout his life. Monarchists and Anarchists near Petrograd. Closed shops, counter-revolutionary battles and railway sabotage in Moscow 1918. Mounted Red Army. 5th Congress of Soviets at Bolshoi Theatre. Sverdlov talking to camera. Stills of the German Count Mirabach murdered at the German Embassy, Moscow arrest of Socialist Revolutionaries. Covers the Civil War, the 1921 famine and subsequent requisitioning of grain. Stills of Cheka rogues. Signing of the Brest Litovsk Treaty 1918. Yaroslavl revolt put down by Bolsheviks. Youth carnival, Red soldiers leave to fight the Interventionists. Lenin assassination attempt. Funeral of Uritsky, court hearing of murder enquiry. Cheka search and arrest of anti-revolutionaries. Aid for the orphans of the wars in the Twenties. Dzerzhinsky making a speech. Includes archive footage from film archives of USSR, Poland, the Democratic German Republic and Yugoslavia.
- Credits:
- Contributors: Zenin, Semyon; Novogodsky, Aleksandr; Geviksman, Vitaly.
- Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
- Notes:
- Archive Reference: N-507002.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 17 October, 2017).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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