1922 - 1991: The Complete History Of The Soviet Union

From Lenin to Gorbachev, discover the complete history of the Soviet Union, a super-power that would define much of the 20th century. Discover how leaders rose and fell and how this communist block ultimately met its downfall.
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00:03 - The Formation of the Soviet Union 02:55 - The Russian Civil War and Its Aftermath ️ 12:04 - Lenin's Death and Stalin's Rise to Power 15:36 - **The Rise of Heavy Industry in the USSR ** 19:16 - **International Recognition and Relations ** 24:01 - The Great Famine and Political Purges ️ 31:08 - The End of the Great Terror 39:00 - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 44:41 - The Formation of the Soviet Union 46:13 - The Soviet Union Rises as a Superpower 54:09 - The Yalta Conference and Post-War Order 1:00:02 - The Iron Curtain and Eastern Europe ️ 1:01:37 - Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech 1:04:47 - The Atomic Age and Korean War ️ 1:07:12 - After Stalin: The Struggle for Power ️ 1:17:20 - The Space Race Begins 1:28:24 - The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Turning Point ️ 1:31:58 - Khrushchev's Downfall 1:32:52 - Khrushchev's Fall and Brezhnev's Rise 1:40:25 - Vietnam War: A Proxy Battle of Ideologies 1:45:55 - The Prague Spring: A Brief Glimmer of Reform 1:48:06 - Stagnation and Self-Censorship 1:50:00 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan ️‍ 1:57:44 - Gorbachev's Rise to Power 2:03:15 - Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War 2:08:04 - Cracks in the Soviet System 2:10:19 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union ️ Made with snap-summary.com

[@isaiahmarquezcoach-d7u]

i was lenin and joseph stalin of that country

[@victorydaydeepstate]

This is breathtaking. You're giving a different perspective. Thank you! This is mind candy for a WW2 geek.

[@BankerBritish]

‘What is as big as a house, burns 20 litres of fuel a day, puts out a **** load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces? A Soviet machine made to cut an apple into four pieces!’

[@mrhein1986]

Chernobyl series :P coal miners squad leader

[@BankerBritish]

@ nailed it

[@DocumentaryHistory-e5m]

It's impressive how the video managed to cover such a vast period and so many significant events.

[@HistoryBeyondBordersTV]

Thank you for sharing the video with a comprehensive overview of Soviet history, from its formation to its collapse. It covers the key events and figures of this period and provides insights into the complex and often tragic history of the country.

[@nick56677]

USSR lasted 69 years.....Nice!

[@Eric_D_Blair]

WHO WAS THE 6 & WHO WAS THE 9?😮

[@geedents]

nice

[@admiralyisoonshin4995]

😅

[@kevindorland738]

@nick56677 69 years of suffering

[@VincentAvila-i4n]

74 years akhually

[@ВладимирФЭД]

Когда мы жили при социализме, Мы думали о смысле жизни, Мы были романтиками, И любили смотреть на звёзды А теперь, теперь всё очень просто. Нет бесплатного жилья, И бесплатного образования, Жизнь-это просто, Просто борьба за выживание. И неважно бедный ты или богатый, Сильный ты или слабый. Ведь рано или поздно найдётся тот, Кому нужнее будет твоё место под солнцем. И, ударив «ножом в спину», он скажет тебе в назидание: Извини братан, просто это борьба за выживание…

[@Lee.Hsien-Yung]

If Gorbachev had imitated Deng Xiaoping's reforms, it is likely that the USSR would not have disbanded and would still survive today.

[@JackGray-ne1jv]

It’s possible, but I wouldn’t say likely. China did not have the nationality problem anywhere near the same extent or federalism which made it such a potent force. That’s what ultimately tore the USSR apart.

[@noahingram8052]

Such a great video

[@noahingram8052]

Great video

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

50:09 Meant to say T-34.

[@nab-rk4ob]

Great documentary.

[@Tahariyarii]

Cool

[@mr.l7471]

A look at what was the USSR and how lasted 69 years. Fascinating

[@SecretsUnlocked41]

The music is perfect.

[@Lee.Hsien-Yung]

The USSR was the successor to the Russian Empire and was founded by Comrade Lenin after the Bolshevik revolution and 4 years of civil war.

[@Jesse-cw5pv]

Ty for summarizing the first 5 minutes of the video

[@greggweber9967]

24:18 Did Stalin care about anyone else? Ukrainians or anyone? What were his priorities?

[@davitka_p]

It’s actually very interesting. In 1929-1930 he made a speech. That the USSR was 50-100 years behind and they needed to modernize in ten years or they will be eliminated. So the focus for the next two 5 year plans was purely on military and industrial might. If that meant feeding the massive new force of factory workers by taking grain from starving farmers so be it( Soviet mentality, the ends justify the means) the crazy and scary part is that Stalin got it right. Ten years later and a couple months the Germans invade. If Stalin wasn’t so cruel and dead set on his goals for the Union it would’ve fell like a rusty barn door. He single handedly saved the nations future by creating small scale catastrophes across the USSR over the years.

[@xxvxxv5588]

​@@davitka_p Stalin and the Soviet leadership acted quite rationally in terms of preserving the Soviet Union as an important state and also increasing its influence in other regions (Europe, East Asia). On the other hand, this was combined with a cruel attitude towards the Ukrainian minority and other vulnerable groups of the population which belonged to ethnic minorities. As an Ukrainian who not have much sympathy for Stalin, but also for the current global capitalist system and imperialism, I would like to say that my antipathy towards Stalin is based not only on the fact that his policies caused great demographic costs in Ukraine and because of due to stalinist politics ethnic Russians preserved some privileges that they have had since the times of the Russian Empire, but also because as a reaction to the excesses of Stalinism, Ukrainian politics and culture shifted too far to the right. Of course, this is largely motivated by the egoism of the Ukrainian rulling class, whose collective interests are not combined with any principles of equality and real democracy which led to empowerment of common people. This is also due to the destructive ideological influence of Western countries that impose on Ukraine a model typical of countries on the periphery of the capitalist global system. Nevertheless, the real crimes of Stalinism are indeed a factor here. I would like to share these reflections that will disliked by both defenders of the Soviet Union, Russian nationalists and "pro-Ukrainian" Nafo liberals whose political line is consistent with the political line of the Ukrainian rulling class.

[@bcent5758]

No

[@blankwavemessiah]

Why is everyone in the comments saying this is trash???? They probably didn’t watch for longer than a few minutes. Im anything BUT “Pro-Russian” right now in their very storied history, but is still a pretty good doc. I’m enjoying it.

[@ku12]

Because at a lot of points it tells a narrative without giving out all the facts. The one I noticed where still to this day is disputed if Stalin would’ve ever instigated a war if the Germans hadn’t. There’s nothing to say he would beside conjecture. Stalin had interestingly positive relationship with Mussolini who once stated that the Soviet Union under Stalin is just Slavic fascism

[@blankwavemessiah]

@ thats fine, and possible…. But equally possibly that it totally would have happened. y’know? I thought it was pretty good. Plus lets be honest, ALMOST any single history Doc beats 95% of the trash on KZbin lol

[@bcent5758]

Yes some of us aren’t history buffs, just enjoying learning because of the way it’s presented.

[@blankwavemessiah]

@@bcent5758 it can be BOTH! I am a history buff… but I cant understand why people are hating, man… like… it can be FACTUAL and you Dont like it. But it doesn’t make it “bad.” You know??

[@jadedirk7233]

“Just mistakes made in economic planning” 24:16 - dude what?? Have you ever read anything? How is this person telling anyone this nonsense, it’s clearly documented that it was deliberate, the polit would show up and take food and then come back and search again and again and left everyone to die.

[@greggweber9967]

7:25 Sir Humphrey Appleby and others in the bureaucracy?

[@ninjalanternshark1508]

53:05 Who is the creepy guy standing to the left of Stalin?

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

The millions that died during the Russian revolution and Civil War was so sick but the ones that were killed after the Civil War was atrocious but when Stalin came into power, he had at least seven or 8 million Ukrainian starved in the 1930s so that he could industrialize. He purged thousands of his own officers in the military because he was paranoid and had them killed and had thousands of other Soviet party members killed and probably during the 30 years he was in Likely slaughtered 50 million or more people than Chinese communist party under Mao allowed 48 million to starve during the great leap forward and about that same number killed during the cultural revolution in the 1960s and communist redeems are just pure evil and mass death

[@arzeilabou9erda74]

Love me some soviet onions.

[@SolInvictus-u5v]

Does it mention the khazars?

[@cahlendavidson2921]

Vladimir Lenin should have been a clothes designer.

[@sev-nutz8524]

The same video twice

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Ohhh no!!! in the beginning of this video, they were talking about the government trying to survive and the military,the navy, mutinying and the truth is THE MILITARY WERE TOLD Just like everyone else in the Soviet Union that after the Civil War, they can have elections, and these people had lived under an imperialistic system, and even though they did not like Nicolas II, they did expect to have another government that they would elect and they wanted a constitutional monarchy, which was something they didn’t wanted for 100 years and when the Soviet Navy started talking about elections is when they were all executed

[@NatashaAvtonomova]

СССР был лучшим местом , чтобы стать хорошим человеком , если бы так жил весь мир , не было бы голодных , брошенных , бесполезных людей и человечество добилось бы гораздо большего и природа бы не страдала , как сейчас . А самое главное , люди были бы здоровые , добрые и хорошо образованные и относились бы друг к другу , как к равным . Нет ничего идиального в мире , но лучше строя не было в истории человечества , кто бы что не придумывал о советском союзе .

[@lewis123417]

Deluded

[@bcent5758]

I presume you live there. It’s certainly not a place that most people dream of moving to.

[@ericlarrivee9373]

The home of 21st century are you kidding ? . 😂

[@nkenchington6575]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp7MnnuBgamKmbc

[@benbennington8859]

This is such slop.

[@noahingram8052]

I loved it

[@MMURDZZ]

President Putin?

[@simonfrederiksen104]

Basically Soviet Storm 2

[@colbygill533]

Same reminds me of being a kid watching history Channel and having real conversations about history with my history teachers and making a 95+ on every test because I was actually educated from tv. I feel bad for kids nowadays.

[@Dopesickgypsy]

Sorry the wall fell commie

[@darkodarko5409]

From all this history, when you touched on Afghanistan, it didn’t occur to you to mention Operation Cyclone by the CIA, which all along trained and armed the Mujahideen to fight and organize against the Soviet Union. Probably because it doesn’t suit you today to talk about how the CIA directly contributed to the creation of radical Islam, which later split into multiple factions, one of which is Al-Qaeda, the group responsible for 9/11. If you’re going to present history, then do it INDEPENDENTLY, and not just by presenting facts that work in your favor.

[@Barbidoll1]

Who’s history.

[@nkenchington6575]

whose

[@CarlosMongeLuna]

anyone really interested, check out Mike Duncan. this is just trash

[@Boujiehoodrat]

Why trash? I wouldn't know

[@MB5rider81]

No

[@Sheezy88]

It really is trash

[@pmtspmts8441]

Actually you right ai produced on narration and nothing new

[@simonfrederiksen104]

Yeah, you might as well watch the ludicrous Soviet storm series about ww2

[@Sheezy88]

I'm really into Russian history and this is straight trash tbh

[@thatfatguy2061]

You ain’t smart enough to understand it youth

[@Sheezy88]

@@thatfatguy2061 ok

[@JohnCena-nw5cz]

Well I do want to factually correct and I have seen more than one documentary that needed fact checked, so in all sincerity what did they get wrong? I truly want to know

[@Sheezy88]

@@thatfatguy2061 I'm a middle aged man numb nuts. I watch history documentaries for fun cuz I live a boring life. The people they have as the historians in this are terrible and don't even include more information about how things transpired in the Russian Revolution. Maybe u should watch other documentaries on the subject and not make assumptions about me. Now kick rocks

[@Sheezy88]

@@JohnCena-nw5cz who are u? I can't even see u

[@streetjustice4287]

celebrating a hundred years of fascism, eh?

[@ronburgandy1475]

Communism was the POLAR OPPOSITE to facism. Like a positive and negative magnet they clash. It's why Germany ORIGINALLY set up so many concentration camps in east Poland, because communism was looked down on worse than a Jew (but harder to find them once they invaded other nations).

[@christophermarriott1681]

Marxism isn't Fascist. Both are two different forms of Socialism.

[@fontenbleau]

Communists was the first terrorists in history which takes power like in modern Iran, not without help of Baltic foreigners estonians & latvians (Lenin personal guards) which fighting legitimate russian government and local army to install that virus into neighbor. Ironically they still don't understand karma which returned back to them in WW2 from the people they installed and still Baltics are the most complainers of their own historical crime. Lenin lost his elections in Russia parliament, he wasn't popular at all, so they just killed everyone and ruled by arms for next 70 years.

[@ronburgandy1475]

@christophermarriott1681 i agree but would say 'extremist' fascism from opposite sides. Socialist values have been propagandised by the west from the late 1800s to make them sound like a bad thing. When in reality its a 'soft' variation of communist values that fit into any model becauseits an economicmodel nit a political one. For example most nations have free healthcare, running water, electricity and basic essentials to survive, its simply a matter of if its free or semi free (subsidised) or non existing (pure capitalism) and these can be in a democracy, a communist governance model or even a tyranny or royalty (warlords making the name same better by calling themselves royalty). Social ' ist' values are present in virtually all of these governance models, mainlybecauseyouneed them for humans to thrive/survive.

[@fontenbleau]

@@streetjustice4287 funny i'm getting notifications when my reply removed from public by current Ai censorship worse than in USSR

[@jsilverboy]

4th