The History of the Civil War
The lost film of the legendary film director
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
- Year: 1921
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Studio: Narkompros
- Keyword: civil war, propaganda, soviet union, anti-communism, russian politics, silent film, russian history, communism, communist propaganda, russian civil war (1918-21), political repression, bolshevism, soviet union history, czarism
- Director: Dziga Vertov
- Cast: Leon Trotsky, Nicolai Kazadanov, Konstantin Mekhonoshin, Innocenti Kozhevnikov, Fyodor Raskolnikov, Filipp Mironov