Inessa Armand versus Alexey Shmakov – Engin Kurtay, Ali Polat

The Hysterical side as opposed to the Factual side of The 1905 “Russian Revolution”


Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies

The mass gathering scene of the political action film by James McTeigue, V for Vendetta (2005) reminds us the October (1928) of Sergei Eisenstein! However, there is a slight but crucial difference: the crowd in the film heads towards the Parliament.

Not to the Buckingham Palace! …

And, neither any audience nor any cocky film analyst have so far questioned what could have been going on in the Buckingham Palace during those moments of blowing the Parliament up. The film never shows anything related to the Royal Order. It successfully makes the audiences to forget the fact that there actually exists a kind of centralized power in Britain. Continue reading “Inessa Armand versus Alexey Shmakov – Engin Kurtay, Ali Polat”