1922-1991: The Bloody History Of The Soviet Union

From revolution to global power, this series chronicles the evolution of the Soviet Union.

00:00 1922-1941
Discover the birth of a new superpower, the turmoil that followed Lenin's death, and Stalin's rise to absolute power. Witness the ruthless transformation of the USSR through purges and industrialization and uncover the story behind the fateful Nazi-Soviet Pact and the fragile alliance that set the stage for war.

45:00 1941-1964
From the devastation of Operation Barbarossa to the height of the Cold War, trace the Soviet Union's defining moments from the middle of the 20th century. Witness the Red Army's costly triumph in WW2, the chaos that followed Stalin's death, and the tense standoff between the world's two nuclear superpowers during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

01:28:51 1964-1991

From Khrushchev's dramatic ousting in 1964 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, trace the final decades of the USSR. Explore Brezhnev's era of stagnation, Gorbachev's attempts at reform, and the fall of the Berlin Wall as a global superpower came to an end.

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