Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

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At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

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Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

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The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Documentary telling the inside story of Communist hardliners' failed attempts to seize power from So...

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The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

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