The October Revolution: “Ten Days that Shook the World”
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Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
A Film by Sergei M. Eisenstein
By Sergei M. Eisenstein
All Soviet Movies on RVISION
Next week, November 7, 2017 is the 100 years anniversary of the October Revolution, November 7, 1917.
We bring to the attention of our readers Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece: “Ten Days that Shook the World” (1928)
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year.
Lenin returns in April.
In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin’s arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world.
While the Mensheviks vacillate, a...