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Russia on Four Wheels. Part 1
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- Summary
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A former superpower and more recently a struggling giant, Russia is looking to assert itself once again on the world stage. Anita and Justin begin their journeys in Sochi, the Black Sea resort home...
A former superpower and more recently a struggling giant, Russia is looking to assert itself once again on the world stage. Anita and Justin begin their journeys in Sochi, the Black Sea resort home to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Anita travels northwest from Sochi in a Kombat, a Russian built luxury armored plated machine, and meets entrepreneurs shaping a new and vibrant Russia. She drives to the western port of Taganrog, enters a vast iron ore mine near Kursk, and travels to Kaluga, an industry center transformed by Western factories, before discovering Moscow's new wealth. Meanwhile Justin heads east into 'old' Russia in a Soviet-built UAZ jeep first designed for the Red Army. He meets traditional Russians and encounters a land that is little changed since before the Cold War years. He visits a former Soviet collective, interviews WWII veterans in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), and tours a Lada car factory in Tolyatti and explores a Gulag in Perm.
Details
- Creator
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2014], c2014
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (51 min.) : sound, color
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn900019566
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on November 25, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Road Trip across Russia (2:08) -- Sochi (1:27) -- Russia Itinerary (3:25) -- Car Trouble (3:17) -- Taganrog Capitalists (3:46) -- Agricultural Privatization (3:38) -- Russian Mining (5:14) -- Volgagrad (formerly Stalingrad) (1:51) -- Cold War Leadership (4:40) -- Kaluga Car Manufacturing Russia's Detroit (4:57) -- Lada Culture (2:55) -- Moscow (3:26) -- Gulag History (5:05) -- Credits: Russia on Four Wheels: Part 1 (0:44)