"Kronstadt" and a travesty of the truth about the Russian Revolution
SINEAD ASH reviews “The Russian Revolution in Colour”, Channel 5 Put out over two weeks in two one-hour parts, The Russian Revolution in Colour was — to judge by the second part — largely a work of historical fiction. Fascinating scraps of old black and white film — of Lenin, Trotsky, demonstrators — were coloured up and spliced into long sections of “dramatisations” and “reconstructions” to let a continuous story, told by a voiceover narrator, unfold on the screen. It was about the Russian Revolution; it was set in the Russian Revolution and Civil War; but the story told and illustrated was...