Soviet Union
communism's superpower experiment
Soviet Union1,922 CE – 1,991 CE
01
The Promise and the Machine
framing
02
1917
1917–1918
03
The Civil War
1918–1921
04
The Tactical Retreat
1921–1924
05
The Grey Blur Wins
1924–1929
06
The War on the Village
1929–1933
07
The Furnace
1928–1941
08
The Vanishing
1934–1939
09
The New Soviet Man
1929–1941
10
The Pact
1933–1941
11
The Catastrophe
1941–1942
12
The Turn
1942–1945
13
The Iron Curtain
1945–1953
14
The Thaw
1953–1957
15
The Rocket and the Boot
1953–1964
16
Developed Socialism
1964–1982
17
The Cracks
1965–1982
18
The Wall the Economy Hit
1979–1985
19
The Repairman
1985–1989
20
The End
1989–1991