The Red Empire

The Red Empire

2022 1 Seasons ⭐ 8.0
Documentary War & Politics

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.

Seasons

1. New Man and Great Terror

2022-10-25

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 ag…

2. Great War and New Dreams

2022-10-25

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 superp…

3. Superpower and Catastrophe

2022-10-25

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 comple…

Top Cast

Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff
Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff
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Annette Gerhardt
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Marina Behnke
Max Volkert Martens
Max Volkert Martens
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Thomas Dehler

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