Mikhail Kalinin
Birthday: 1875-11-19
Place of Birth: Verčnjaja Troica
Biography: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Movies
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Up the Eiffel Tower in Paris / Moscow / Auto race Pe...
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Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vlad...
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
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Lenin
A brief overview of Vladimir Lenin's life and the revolutionary ideas that he relied upon to build t...
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