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A political murder, one that is motivated by personal compulsion and impersonal, ideological ambition, is tragic because it is intentional and inevitable and yet seems entirely unnecessary. Political murder is tragic because it is justified by an abstraction and because its instrumental motives are so puny compared to the trauma its violence inflicts.
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This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia

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Alison is on page 126 of 424 of This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia
"During the late 1930s, [Eisenstein] became interested in the late eighteenth-century Haitian slave rebellion and planned a film with Paul Robeson as Henri Chrisophe"
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This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia

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