Bolshevik Party, a Marxist–Leninist group who had seized power in the Russian Empire amidst popular support during the October Revolution of 1917.' It was of course a military seizure of power by the Bolsheviks unlike the 'Feburary' revolution which had popular support.

Fram ( talk) 08:45, 10 October 2011 (UTC) A need for a change? Carcharoth ( talk) 23:58, 9 October 2011 (UTC) Not accesible, but the Google snippet gives an indication that it is correct: first entry. Leaving a note here in case anyone can help. There is a claim at Angoulême International Comics Festival Other awards that this book won an award in 1986 called the 'Free Russia award', but I'm having problems verifying this. Jock123 ( talk) 13:48, 4 June 2011 (UTC) Free Russia award No, I believe the politics - while a contributing factor to the book's difficulties - is just a minor impediment to adaptation: there are far more obvious practical considerations which have stopped it going to any other medium. The art hasn't been updated to be uniform with the other books (Tintin is rarely if ever drawn with a mouth in Soviets, and he doesn't adopt the shirt and suit, or jumper and trousers outfit he wears later), so animation wouldn't have been cost effective for the Nelvana series, as it would have needed a unique production design, even if the story could be brought to a standard length. The story, such as it is, is more a sequence of gags, many of them visual, rather than a strong on-going narrative, so it wouldn't work on the radio for things like the French audio record adaptations or the BBC radio series. It isn't in the 62 page format to start with, meaning that it wouldn't run to the same length as other adventures if made into a screen adaptation. It wasn't in the canon at the time of the Belvision series, so the furthest back that series reaches is a brief retrospective frame or two of Tintin in his safari gear from Congo. Also you have to consider that having been out of circulation for the vast majority of the author's life, and arriving late to translation, the opportunity to adapt it has been limited. I would suggest that the main reason it hasn't been adapted is that, in terms of the other books, it is relatively unknown to the general public. Compared to other issues in Tintin books (attiudes to race, colonialism, and the lack of strong female characters come to mind) there isn't - as far as I am aware - any real groundswell of opposition to the book based on its politics.

I feel that it's a rather sweeping generalization to say in the header that it is because of controversy over it's polemical nature which has meant that there are no adaptations. Reasons for non-adaptation to other media

9.1 Agreeing on a proposed introduction.

7 Designed to be a work of anti-Marxist and anti-socialist propaganda for children,.

1 Reasons for non-adaptation to other media.

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