In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.
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Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of...
On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Squ...
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...
A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece en...
After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have fol...
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and pai...
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets inv...
Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different background...
Mihajlo, an introvert piano teacher starts romance with a pretty careerist who teaches modeling at t...
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...
An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the w...
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit wit...
In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just ...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...