Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)

overview : 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.

Release Date : Jan 01, 2003

Runtime : 1h 30m

Genre : Documentary  History  

Companies : History, Discovery Channel

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Keywords : holocaust (shoah), world war ii, soviet union, biography, joseph stalin, gulag, oppression, russian revolution (1917), communism, communist propaganda, stalinism, religious persecution, holodomor, communism crimes, josef stalin, katyń