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)
Иосиф Сталин
as Self (archive footage)
Владимир Ленин
as Self (archive footage)
Lev Kopelev
as Self
დოდო ჭიჭინაძე
as Self
Lev Razgon
as Self
Leonid Zamyatin
as Self
Edvard Radzinsky
as Self
Александр Бурдонский
as Self
Dmitry Likhachev
as Self
Olga Trifonova
as Self
Genrikh Yagoda
as Self (archive footage)
