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Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao

Series: Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao
4.6
(10)
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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

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

7. Building East Germany, Albania, and Romania

30m

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Despite claims that communism was a universal ideology, it developed differently in different countries.

8. Mao Zedong and Communist China

30m

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No one reshaped Marxist-Leninist dogma as much as Mao Zedong, who led the communist takeover of China in 1949

9. Chinas Cultural Revolution

30m

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Investigate Mao’s motivation for unleashing nationwide chaos.

10. Dynastic Communism in North Korea

27m

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Focus on the world’s last remaining Stalinist state, North Korea.

Extended Details

  • SeriesCommunism in Power: From Stalin to Mao
  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

The Great CoursesDirector
The Great CoursesProducer
Vejas Gabriel LiuleviciusActor