| Description |
2 videodiscs (DVD) (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4in |
| Contents |
DVD 1. Utopia in power (1917-1928) -- The two faces of Communism (1929-1939) -- DVD 2. The peak years (1940-1953) -- End without end (1953-1999) |
| Summary |
A documentary about the history of communism from 1917 in Russia. Details the denial of the democratic rights of millions and Stalin's purges, the great famine of the Ukraine, and the misery of the Spanish Civil War. Chronicles the defeat of the Nazi forces, leading to the seizing and enslaving of Eastern Europe, and the communist contribution to the Korean and Cold Wars |
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After the death of Stalin came the rise of Kruschev, who orchestrated the crushing of uprisings in East Germany and Hungary. Shows the massive misuse of resources and the propaganda of the space race. Records Castro's grasping power in Cuba. Looks at the communist backed war in Vietnam and the fall of the Berlin Wall through to the dying days of communism as a discredited philosophy in the late 1990s. Shows how communism has been used by dictators more to suppress peoples than to uplift them |
| Notes |
Originally released as a motion picture, France, ArteVideo, 1999 |
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Sleeve title: The great belief of the century : the history of communism |
| Credits |
Film by Patrick Rotman, Patrick Barberis; Editors, Pascale Ohlcasadiesus, Lucie Girre |
| Notes |
DVD |
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Color recording system: NTSC. Region 1 disc |
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In English and French |
| Subject |
Communism -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Author |
Rotman, Patrick.
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Barbéris, Patrick.
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Arte Video (Firm)
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