Overview

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Created by Adam Curtis

Network

• BBC iPlayer

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Self (archive footage)

  7 eps

• 

  Boris Yeltsin

  Self (archive footage)

  7 eps

• 

  Vladimir Putin

  Self (archive footage)

  7 eps

Themes

• ideology
• soviet union
• trauma
• society
• politics
• democracy
• communism
• russia
• history
• societal collapse

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