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Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao

Series: Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao
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Episodes
12
Rating
NR
Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

Explore the communist movement at its zenith between the 1920s and 1970s, covering the regimes of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Marxist-Leninist governments in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

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Episodes

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1. Joseph Stalin: The Soviet Man of Steel

33m

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Trace the rise of Joseph Stalin after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.

2. The Stalinist Gulag State

28m

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Stalin’s rule descended into mass terror, culminating in the Great Purge

3. Pilgrims to Utopia: Foreigners in the USSR

27m

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Many notables from the West traveled to the new communist state and came away impressed—or rather deluded by Soviet propaganda

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Artists

The Great Coursesdirector
The Great Coursesproducer
Vejas Gabriel Liuleviciusactor