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Series · 2022–2022Ended

The Red Empire

8.0·1 season·3 episodes·53 min avg.·Germany

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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New Man and Great TerrorUp next
Oct 25, 2022

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 for the forced collectivization of the peasants and rigorous industrialization. The price was high...

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Great War and New Dreams
Oct 25, 2022

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 attempted to give the country new impetus.

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Superpower and Catastrophe
Oct 25, 2022

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 still present. Gorbachev brought new directions. With glasnost and perestroika, the empire was to be reformed...

Cast

5 credited
Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff
Main narrator (voice)
AG
Annette Gerhardt
Narrator (voice)
MB
Marina Behnke
Narrator (voice)
Max Volkert Martens
Narrator (voice)
Thomas Dehler
Narrator (voice)

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