Provides an account of the Great Terror, which raged in the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938, during which General Secretary Joseph Stalin ordered the executions of thousands of people who opposed his policies.
An examination of the experiences of the survivors of Joseph Stalin's Gulag that draws on interviews with victims to describe the challenges they faced after returning home and the political conflict that was caused by their imprisonment.
Traces the career of Stalin, the Bolshevik dictator of Russia, focusing on how his repressive policies impacted his country, his people, and the world. (50 min.).
Examines the life and misdeeds of Russian leader Joseph Stalin, discussing how his efforts to turn the Soviet Union into a world power led to the displacement and deaths of millions of people.
Provides a portrait of Stalin, based on material that became available in the aftermath of glasnost along with earlier official and unofficial sources.
A biography that emphasizes Stalin's role in the creation and evolution of the Soviet Union from his arrival in Vienna in 1913 where he was sent by Lenin, through civil war and his rise to power, World War II, and the Cold War.
