The Red Empire

Name: The Red Empire
Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
Released: 2022-10-25
Cast: Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff, Annette Gerhardt, Marina Behnke, Max Volkert Martens, Thomas Dehler

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DocumentaryWar & Politics

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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.

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Original TitleDas Rote Imperium

StatusEnded

First AiredOctober 25, 2022

Last AiredOctober 25, 2022

Episode Runtime53dk

Seasons1

Episodes3

TypeMiniseries

Origin CountryGermany

Original LanguageGerman

Spoken LanguagesDeutsch

Keywords

revolution cold war propaganda utopia afghanistan agriculture industry crisis gulag super power perestroika mikhail gorbachev communism imperialism repression

Production Companies

Astfilm Productions

Networks

Last Episode

S1 E3 • 10/25/2022

Superpower and Catastrophe

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 completely dissipated. Idealism and the fervor of the patriots were still present. Gorbachev brought new directions. With glasnost and perestroika, the empire was to be reformed...