THE SOVIET UNION: RISE, RULE, AND COLLAPSE OF A COMMUNIST EMPIRE
Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Soviet Union — the largest country on earth, the great communist experiment, and a collapse so fast it shocked everyone including the people who caused it.
This episode covers the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war, Stalin's industrialization and purges, the Great Patriotic War and its twenty-seven million dead, the space race, Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, and the Christmas Day resignation that ended it all in 1991.
In 1922 it was declared. In 1991 it was over. In between: everything…
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