Desc: La Russia - Dai Romanov a Stalin film: Directed by Leonardo Tiberi. Russia more than a country is a continent. In the early 18th century its borders stretched from the very hub of Central Europe through the Berlin Gate(s) till the Strait of Bering in front of Alaska. They are the result of a policy of continuous expanding (an expansionistic policy) which lasted for centuries and to which even the communist regime did not renounce. Russia has always been in the hands of a monarchy which made its 140 million subjects living like in a feudal society. Here the revolutionary spark was ignited, the same spark which after 17 years turned this territory into the first Communist country in the world. A long and tormented history began, dominated from charismatic figures like Lenin and Stalin, steeped in/full of big hopes for a better world as well as bitter disappointments, pains, suffers, ruthless acts and muss murders / massacres.