
01/01/2003
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.

Edward Herrmann
as Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin
as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin
as Self (archive footage)

Lev Kopelev
as Self

Dodo Chichinadze
as Self

Lev Razgon
as Self

Leonid Zamyatin
as Self

Edvard Radzinsky
as Self

Alexander Burdonsky
as Self

Dmitry Likhachev
as Self

Olga Trifonova
as Self

Genrikh Yagoda
as Self (archive footage)

Nathan Steinberger
as Self

Boris Efimov
as Self

Sergei Khrushchev
as Self

Leon Trotsky
as Self (archive footage)

Dantsig Baldaev
as Self

Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)

Alexander Yakovlev
as Self

Joachim von Ribbentrop
as Self (archive footage)

Wolfgang Leonhard
as Self

Vyacheslav Molotov
as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Naumov
as Self

Georgi Zhukov
as Self (archive footage)

Vladlen Anchishkin
as Self

Philipp von Boeselager
as Self

Nikolai Baibakov
as Self

Friedrich Paulus
as Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill
as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt
as Self (archive footage)

Ivan Konev
as Self (archive footage)
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