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...Tsar to Lenin (Max Eastman-Herman Axelbank). An amateur photographer, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia amused him self one summer afternoon in 1913 by snapping his guests and letting them snap him in and about his swimming pool at Livadia. Intended for the royal album, these naive shots turned up last week un der very different surroundings - the screen of New York's Filmarte Theatre, as part of a seven-reel documentary film tracing Russia's history through the War and the 1917 Revolution. Assembled on the general lines of Laurence Stallings' The First World...
Trotskyist Eastman sees to it that his hero gets into as many scenes as possible, includes only one shot of Stalin. Far greater than its significance as Trotskyist propaganda however is the Tsar to Lenin'?, importance as one more striking testimonial to the screen's potential value as a medium for revitalizing history...
...Tsar to Lenin starts with a shot of Nicholas II and his four daughters who wear feathered hats, ends with a close-up of Lenin in 1921. Between the two, it assembles an extraordinarily complete record of major happenings, catches the spirit of ten incredible years. Best shots: palace guards helping the 10-year-old Tsarevitch mount his horse; Petrograd crowds tossing bouquets at Kerensky; an unidentified Bolshevik soldier smiling at his White firing squad...
...Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted to get away with founding a Communist State at all. Today Dictator Stalin is creating as much in the way of Russian centres...
...That Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin have never seen cause to suppress Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin or even excessively bourgeois Madame Butterfly goes far to explain how Soviet Russia is now managing to like supercapitalistic Mr. & Mrs. Davies and support quietly a growing bureaucracy of Babbitt Bolsheviks...