Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
Directed byPeter Adler, Stefan Brauburger, Alexander Berkel, Oliver Halmburger, Ralf Piechowiak


Featuring

Edward Herrmann
Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)

Lev Kopelev
Self

Dodo Chichinadze
Self
Lev Razgon
Self
Leonid Zamyatin
Self

Edvard Radzinsky
Self

Alexander Burdonsky
Self

Dmitry Likhachev
Self
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