Plot synopsis

1918 is one of the most difficult years in Russian history. A new calendar common with the rest of Europe, the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, the beginning of the bloody Civil War, the government's move from Petrograd to Moscow, spelling reform...
One of the main sources for the creation of this program were the memoirs of Leon Trotsky, the main hero of the tragic events of 1918. Nikolai Svanidze carefully analyzes Trotsky's relations with Lenin and Stalin.
The film includes comments from academician Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, writers Boris Vasiliev and Anatoly Pristavkin, and the permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences E. Carrère d'Encausse.

Commentaries

Сценарии телесериала «Исторические хроники с Николаем Сванидзе», с 1913го по 1933 год. [Scénarios de la série télévisée « Chroniques historiques avec Nikolaï Svanidzé », de 1913 à 1933], Marina ZHUKOVA, Амфора, 2014

- Screenplay

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Historical Chronicles with Nikolay Svanidze, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

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