The Red Empire

Overview

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.

Network

• ARTE

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

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  Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff

  Main narrator (voice)

  3 eps

• Annette Gerhardt

  Narrator (voice)

  3 eps

• Marina Behnke

  Narrator (voice)

  3 eps

• 

  Max Volkert Martens

  Narrator (voice)

  3 eps

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Themes

• revolution
• cold war
• propaganda
• utopia
• afghanistan
• agriculture
• industry
• crisis
• gulag
• super power
• perestroika
• mikhail gorbachev

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