Russian Revolution, Civil War & Soviet Union

Time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history

Tsar Nicholas I and rebellion of officers in the Decembrist Revolt, 1825

1850s Russia; Cossack and son clash in loyalties to Czar Alexander II

Tsar Alexander III

19th century Russian expedition to Siberia (1902)

Cossacks plan an uprising against Gen. Volkonsky, governor of the Caucasus

Love story set among the Cossacks of Siberia at the time of the Russian Revolution

Cossack leader Yermak Timofeyevich explored Siberia (starting 1579 or 1581) which opened that land to Russian expansion

A woman struggles against Tsarist rule during the 1905 Russian Revolution

Russian terrorists against the Czarist regime in 1905

Classic Eisenstein silent film about revolt in Russia of sailors on the battleship Potemkin (June 14, 1905)

1906 bloody revolt by Russian garrison (in Finland)

Sergei Eisenstein; a strike in Czarist Russia, brutally suppressed (1912)

Lenin's four years in Paris (1909-1912)

On his return trip to Saint-Petersburg Lenin goes from Zurich, through Germany, through Sweden to Saint-Petersburg

Russian officer caught up in the troop revolts in WWI (includes a love story)

Soviet film is a love story set against the Russian Navy in the 1915-1917 WWI battles at the Moonzund Islands in the Baltic Sea

1894-1917 of Russia; fights Germany and Turkey in WWI

Turkish film about the Battle of Sarikamish between Russia and Ottoman Empire from December 22, 1914 to January 17, 1915

Last year and a half of the life of the royal Romanovs before their execution in 1918 by the Bolsheviks

The Hammer Studios version of Rasputin

Very good Russian film on the fall of Rasputin and the Russian monarchy

The mad Gypsy adviser to Alexandra; Greta Scacchi, Alan Rickman

Fall of Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov dynasties in WWI

1917, Am. reporter Jack Reed, sympathizes with Bolsheviks

Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution 1917

Sergei Eisenstein; Russian Revolution

Covers Russian history from 1912 to WWI to Bolshevik Revolution, to the Russian Civil War

Two families, one wealthy and the other proletariat, through six decades from WWI to Bolshevik Revolution, to WWII and to the era of modernization

Three generations living around the Volga river beginning in 1902 and going through the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War and Stalin’s rule

Writer Gorky’s positive, then negative view of the Russian Revolution

Worker abuse leads to the Russian Revolution

Life of Cossacks in Siberia during time of the Russian Revolution

Russian man flees the Russian Revolution and goes to Mexico

A Russian and his mother try to flee Russia following the Russian Revolution of 1917

Italian film about two brothers who are rivals in the Russian Revolution

Baltic Fleet sailors join in the action in revolutionary Petrograd, autumn 1917

Story of the young lady who pretended to be one of the children of the executed family of the Tsar

Anastasia is played by Amy Irving

Animated version of George Orwell's story of the corruption of the communist system in Russia

Uses real animals in the portrayal of the communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union

Life of Russian writer, Nobel Laureate and critic of the Russian Revolution Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)

Five-year-old boy sees turmoil of the First World War and the Russian Revolution

Soviet film of the romance of a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer in the Russian Civil War

1920, fisherman’s son Andrei recruited on the side of the Whites versus the Reds; he and his father are killed for hiding a Red officer; the family plans revenge

Russian film about a love story involving the general of the White Army Alexander Kolchak who became the supreme governor of Russia

Soviet film giving the background of the Russian Civil War

Soviet film about the first years of Soviet government, 1918-1921, as seen by Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Bolshevik Secret Police

Soviet film dealing with the years following the Russian Revolution

In today's Turkmenistan a Red Army soldier who fought in the Russian Civil War is going home but has to fight some bandits first

Civil war in post-revolutionary Soviet Union

Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Zvenigora and Earth)

Russian movie about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) Commander of the Red Army's 25th Division

The Russian civil war tears a family apart

Soviet mini-series set in the Russian civil war where a Soviet secret policeman spies on the White Army

Russian film about Pvt. Bumbarash as he tries to survive the Russian Civil War to return to his village and his love

Russian Civil War

English spy gets caught up in the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War

Stalin's cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-communist uprising in St. Petersburg, Russia

Set after the Russian Civil War (in the wake of the Basmachi rebellion)

Life in city of Saratov in 1919 during the Russian Civil War

Life in city of Saratov in 1919 during the Russian Civil War

Russian film about the defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21 and emigration to Constantinople

Soviet film about the Russian Civil War

Bolsheviks set up House of Art in Petrogard of 1921 to control the intellectuals

Stalin and his brutal purges

First Russian, post-Soviet view of Stalinist excesses

Excesses of Stalin and their effect on a man and his two boys

Stalin invites Russian émigrés to return home and then double-crosses them

Story of the last days of the theorist of the Russian communist revolutionaries, hunted down by his once communist allies

Assassination of Trotsky in Frida's home

Life of a tenant farmer family in a Finnish village from 1890s to 1918 and the Finnish Civil War

Set around the founding of the Republic of Finland

Finnish Civil War (January to May, 1918)

Love triangle unfolds over the course of Finland's tumultuous independence from WWI, to the Finnish Civil War, to the fascist Lapua government preceding World War II

A White officer in the Finnish Civil War against the Reds repeatedly tries to save a female Red soldier who he loves

Richest man in Finland is killed in December 1917 just a few months before the Finnish Civil War by a revolutionary seamen

Finnish film about a boy in post-World War I Finland

Commanding the Finnish border with Russia following the end of the Finnish War of Independence turns out to be a very hard task to perform

1920s, Russia, Finland, peace negotiations

1919, at end of Russian civil war, Latvia; a countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to promiscuity and disaster

1919 fight for Latvian independence

Love story set in Latvia around the time Latvia was overtaken by the Soviets

Livonian War, 1558–1583, where Russia tried to take Livonia (today’s Estonia & Latvia) and was opposed by varying Allies

Life in 20th century Estonia by monitoring a steam boiler

Estonians want their own country, WWI forward

December 1924 attempted Communist Coup in Estonia

1949 March deportation of Estonian people to Siberia by Soviet Secret Police

Collective workers in Ukraine against rich landowner win the day

First president of the Polish Republic 1922 (for five days) Gabriel Narutowicz, who was opposed by the Polish Nationalists /Fascists