Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Awakening

This program chronicles the Soviet Union’s faltering steps toward political pluralism. There are startling, shocking images in this program: Andrei Sakharov, speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Soviet, cut off in mid-phrase while talking about the effects of Stalinism on the Soviet conception of truth; an Armenian video samizdat showing the killings in Sumgait in 1988, an indifferent soldiery watching Moslem vigilantes carrying out a pogrom. The program also looks at the re-emergence of Christianity in the Soviet Union, and talks to an orthodox priest who blames the unrest in the nation to the destruction of the church; it also examines the fate of the Baltic states. (52 minutes)

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Item#: BVL2812
Copyright date: ©1989

Part of the Series : Soviets: The True Story of Perestroika


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