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Leningradskaya: a village in southern Russia

Canada, 1990

Film
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Episode number 1 of Series “The Hand of Stalin”.
In 1929, Stalin implemented a massive process of forced farm collectivisation which saw millions of peasants forcibly removed from their land. Ill-conceived and carelessly administered, the collectivisation process resulted in millions of peasants suffering deportation, imprisonment and finally death by starvation as the process led to a massive famine. Interviews with peasants, old Communist Party activists and survivors of the famine provide an eloquent and moving testament to the abuse of power enacted by Stalin in his iron-willed determination to make collectivisation a success.

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Credits

director

John Walker

producer

Tom Roberts

production company

BBC

October Films

Duration

01:15:00:00

Production places
Canada
Production dates
1990

Appears in

The Hand of Stalin

Group of items

The Hand of Stalin

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

306259

Language

Russian

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Famines

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Farms - Soviet Union

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Canada

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Collective farms

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Famines

Foreign language films

History → History

History → Soviet Union - History - 1917-1936

History → Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953

People → Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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