Ian Holm
Stalin (1990)
Miniseries
Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.
Released March 13, 1990
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, tmdb.soviet-union, tmdb.dictatorship, tmdb.communism, imdb.stalinism, imdb.reference-to-joseph-stalin, imdb.kremlin + 3 more, imdb.bolshevik, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.non-fiction
Production Companies: Thames Television, WGBH Boston
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
Russian,
English
S1E1 - Revolutionary
He was hailed as "teacher, leader, favorite friend" and given flowers by adoring children on his 70th birthday in 1949. A former prisoner recalls that upon his death in 1953, "Even in the prison camp they wept." Another man defends his actions as an informer for Stalin. This hour traces Stalin's ascent in Lenin's shadow and his accumulation of power at the expense of his Bolshevik comrades and rivals, whom he outmaneuvered and then consigned to their deaths. The account of how he managed to create a Lenin-Stalin cult despite the famous testament of Lenin that warned against him and recommended his removal as General Secretary of the Communist Party is fascinating for its display of hypocrisy, audacity and ruthlessness.
March 13, 1990, midnight
S1E2 - Despot
Stalin's reign is one of murder on an immense scale: an estimated 20 million deaths at the hands of the state. Historians tell of the destruction of the peasantry that resulted in a famine in the early 1930s that took the lives of more than 5 million people yet went unreported by most Western observers including George Bernard Shaw, shown here. Forced labor killed millions more.
March 20, 1990, midnight
S1E3 - Generalissimo
The last years of Stalin's life, from the 1939 non-aggression pact with Germany through the victory of the Red Army in World War II, the takeover of Eastern Europe, and the beginnings of a new purge before his death. He was mourned by millions of those whom he held in subjugation.
March 27, 1990, midnight
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: March 13, 1990
Last Air Date: March 27, 1990, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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