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In the Whirlwind of Revolution

1922 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ24041177 ↗
Source-derived summary

In the Whirlwind of Revolution (Russian: В вихре революции, romanized: V vikhre revolyutsii) is a 1922 Soviet silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Chargonin. The film is about a miners' strike in Tsarist Russia. Against the background of the events develops a romance between the head of the workers and a girl from a wealthy family.

The film's art direction was by Vladimir Ballyuzek.

Cast

Zoya Barantsevich

N. Vishnyak

References

Bibliography

Derek Spring & Richard Taylor. Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Routledge, 2013.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “In the Whirlwind of Revolution” as 1922 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Whirlwind, Revolution and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Whirlwind, Revolution and film providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24041177. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “In the Whirlwind of Revolution” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.