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The Red Empire

DocumentaryWar & Politics
8.0·2022·1 Season

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 oppre...

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Cast

Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff

Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff

Main narrator (voice)

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Annette Gerhardt

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Marina Behnke

Narrator (voice)

Max Volkert Martens

Max Volkert Martens

Narrator (voice)

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Thomas Dehler

Narrator (voice)

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.