The Red Empire (2022)
The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.
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1. New Man and Great Terror2022-10-25 · 52m1922 was the birth year of the Soviet Union. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Transcaucasia united to form the USSR. A completely new state entity emerged. Initially, the backward agr
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2. Great War and New Dreams2022-10-25 · 52mThe history of the Soviet Union from its entry into the war in 1941 to the end of the 1960s: It tells the story of the so-called Great Patriotic War, Stalin and the rise to superpo
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3. Superpower and Catastrophe2022-10-25 · 54mThe third part of the documentary series reconstructs the last two decades of the USSR. The revolutionary energy with which the country was founded still seemed not to have complet
Cast
Nadja Schulz-BerlinghoffMain narrator (voice)Annette GerhardtNarrator (voice)
Marina BehnkeNarrator (voice)
Max Volkert MartensNarrator (voice)
Thomas DehlerNarrator (voice)Images
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