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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

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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

4. World War II: Steel Tempered in the Furnace

29m

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Chart Stalin’s plan for world domination in light of international politics in the 1930s.

5. American Communists: Beyond the Red Scare

31m

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Note how espionage often went hand in hand with party membership, and survey successive “red scares” such as the McCarthy period.

6. The Soviet Elephant and the Secret Speech

31m

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The Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazism gave the communist movement enormous prestige

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Artists

The Great Coursesdirector
The Great Coursesproducer
Vejas Gabriel Liuleviciusactor