Saturday Night at the Movies at Raceology: October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)
Hello all, I'm extremely busy this weekend, and tired so I don't have time to post a lot. I'm working on expanding my ancient African history OPs, however to make something presentable, and contain so much data takes time. Also, I'm working on a set of articles of East Asian history of science and technology, as well as making my Canada demographics OP into something ready for publication, and to continue it by looking at the issue in Australia and New Zealand.
Anyway, I've been meaning to post this for a long time now. It is a type of Soviet documentary-style (propaganda?) film about the October revolution, directed by Sergei Eisenstein of Battleship Potemkin fame. He was a critically renowned director. This film didn't sit well with the Soviet authorities who thought that ordinary people wouldn't understand it or something to that effect. It was commissioned by the Soviet government to celebrate the 10th anniversary of them gaining power. Eisenstein was chosen to lead the film due to his international success with Battleship Potemkin (considered to be one of the greatest films of all time). He had to re-edit the movie to get rid of any references to Trotsky who Stalin had a falling out with, and was planning to kill (and eventually did via assassination in Mexico). The film was a flop, however, critics today generally recognize it as a brilliant film. Anyway without any further ado here is the film:
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