Plot
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.
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Cast
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
Olga Trifonova
Self
Genrikh Yagoda
Self (archive footage)
Nathan Steinberger
Self
Boris Efimov
Self
Sergei Khrushchev
Self
Leon Trotsky
Self (archive footage)
Dantsig Baldaev
Self
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Yakovlev
Self
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage)
Wolfgang Leonhard
Self
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Naumov
Self
Georgi Zhukov
Self (archive footage)
Vladlen Anchishkin
Self
Philipp von Boeselager
Self
Nikolai Baibakov
Self
Friedrich Paulus
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Ivan Konev
Self (archive footage)
