{"id":493,"date":"2008-05-17T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-murder-of-rasputin-analyis-of-the-hollywood-movie\/"},"modified":"2008-05-17T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T11:08:07","slug":"the-murder-of-rasputin-analyis-of-the-hollywood-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-murder-of-rasputin-analyis-of-the-hollywood-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murder of Rasputin: Analyis of the Hollywood Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/A_Level\/Late_Modern\/Russia_and_the_USSR\/Tsar_Nicholas_II_and_the_Russian_Revolutions.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/top_activities\/pics\/thumbnails\/yr12_russia_gif.jpg\" alt=\"Tsarist Russia under Nicholas II\" \/><\/a>For IB \/ A-Level historians. At this point, I watch the final 35 minutes or so of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000E8REAM\/activehistory-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Rasputin&#8221; Feature Film<\/a> starring Alan Rickman (available from Amazon here). This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/as\/mod\/tsar_nicholas\/6_War_Feb_Rev\/3_Rasputin.pdf\">worksheet <\/a>follows the viewing and encourages students to analyse the film as they would any other source &#8211; what has been left out? what has been deliberately falsified? what events have been &#8220;spun&#8221; and how? A primary source account with associated tasks relating to the murder can be found here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For IB \/ A-Level historians. At this point, I watch the final 35 minutes or so of the &#8220;Rasputin&#8221; Feature Film starring Alan Rickman (available from Amazon here). This worksheet follows the viewing and encourages students to analyse the film as they would any other source &#8211; what has been left out? what has been&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-murder-of-rasputin-analyis-of-the-hollywood-movie\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ib-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":489,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-rise-of-rasputin\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":0},"title":"The Rise of Rasputin","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"May 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"For IB \/ A-Level historians. 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