The author, who was one of the leading researchers of Russian cinematography, examines the depiction of Jews in Russian Film from 1919-1999.

The author examines turbulent days of 1917 and the rise of the Bolsheviks and the power-cult and dictatorship of Lenin and Stalin.

Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) is an amazing, but in some ways very typical figure in Russian history: a prince from an old family who became a revolutionary, a scholar and encyclopedist immersed in politics, an anarchist who sharply criticized violence and the ‘Red Terror’. He became famous as a geographer and explorer of the North, a historian and philosopher, a literary critic and...