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.
1 season · 3 episodes
S1 E1New Man and Great Terror
Oct 25, 202252 min
1922 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 agrarian country needed electricity and industry. Stalin pushed
S1 E2Great War and New Dreams
Oct 25, 202252 min
The 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 superpower status, but also how Stalin's successor Khrushchev attem
S1 E3Superpower and Catastrophe
Oct 25, 202254 min
The 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 completely dissipated. Idealism and the fervor of the patriots were
