Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin in October (Amkino). For over a year U. S. Stalinists have been noisily picketing the film Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937), prepared by Trotskyist Author Max Eastman from newsreels and film records of the Russian revolution. Reason: the reels showed Old Bolshevik Leon Trotsky as the busiest and best aide, discovered Stalin in but one group shot, standing obscurely to Lenin's left in a bad light...
Last fortnight the Soviet film industry released its official answer in the U. S. An arresting character study of Nikolai Lenin during the last days of the Provisional Kerensky Government Lenin in October went far out of its way (but never off the present "party line") to convince U. S. cinemaudiences that Stalin was Lenin's fair-haired boy, that Lenin trusted him much more than he did "idiotic" pessimists like Trotsky, "traitors" like Leo Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev. With youthful, black-browed Stalin standing stolidly at his right, puffing on a Hawkshaw pipe, Lenin (Boris V. Shchukin) addresses...
...revolution period has been the Soviet cinema's favorite topic, but it has never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played...
...town drives him to Moscow. His wife, from whom he has been separated for years, dies, and Samghim becomes involved with a wealthy widow, with Bolsheviks before the Revolution, speculators during the War. Notes left by Gorki suggest that Samghim was to come to feel a personal hatred of Lenin, and to die in the Bolshevik seizure of power. Like the earlier volumes, The Specter is crowded with philosophic and political speculations, with scenes of suicides and bitter intellectual quarrels, with an oppressive boredom, which is the one sensation Clim Samghim feels strongly. Although The Specter is not likely...
Young Russians today are not reminded that Lenin in 1922 permitted a number of prelates of the Russian Orthodox Church to form a new "Living Church," and to preach modernist, Marxian, non-super-natural doctrines while wearing the flowing robes and black boxlike mitres of the bishops of old Holy Russia. Both the Living Church and the Orthodox Church have existed since then at the pleasure of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. The Government's policy has been to tolerate religion so long as there were people who wanted it, and at the same time to encourage the work...