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Tsar to Lenin (1937)
Must see history of the Russian Revolution
The film, based on primary source material from many different sources, accurately depicts the first, and only, socialist revolution in history. Throughout the Tsarist empire, the great mass of Russian workers and peasantry lived in deep poverty and were highly exploited by the Tsar, landowning aristocrats, and the capitalist class within Russia and abroad. Immense inequality prevailed not unlike today. With the first imperialist war driving social conditions to the breaking point, the working masses launched strikes, protested in the streets, and raised political demands. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the two principal leaders of the Russian Revolution, led this mass movement to end the imperialist war, deposed the Kerensky regime, and established a socialist republic based on internationalism and permanent revolution. Despite the degeneration of the October Revolution and its falsification by Stalin and his gang of counter revolutionaries, the film is objectively true, leaving Stalin out of this monumental revolution. The grave digger of October played no role whatsoever. This is a must see for the revolutionary struggles ahead.