Summary: Author, lawyer, Marxist revolutionary, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, and founder of the U.S.S.R., Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks and the Red Army. This Biography episode follows Lenin's revolutionary career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Joseph Stalin's almost unfathomable crimes have given him the distinction of being a personification of evil in the 20th century, rivaling Adolf Hitler. This episode of Declassified examines how as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, Stalin was responsible for as many as 20 million Soviet deaths in his purges and infamous Gulag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Nikita Khrushchev, born of peasant parents, ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist while preaching peaceful co-existence. Fidel Castro led the Cuban Revolution, and then became Prime Minister of Cuba, then President of the Council of Ministers. This episode of A&E Classroom examines how these two men joined forces and how their tenuous alliance was tested by the Cuban missile crisis.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011