Watch Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao

Delve into the nightmare of slaughter unleashed by the communist leader Pol Pot on taking over Cambodia in 1975. In 1978, neighboring Vietnam invaded Cambodia to end the anarchy, followed by China

Follow the career of Ho Chi Minh, schoolteacher, pastry chef, communist, and revolutionary. An ardent Vietnamese patriot, he led the struggle against French, Japanese, and American control of his country. Dying in 1969, he didn

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One participant in Mao

No one reshaped Marxist-Leninist dogma as much as Mao Zedong, who led the communist takeover of China. And no one

Despite claims that communism was a universal ideology, it developed differently in different countries. Focus on three post-World War II communist regimes: East Germany, which remained rigidly loyal to the Soviet Union; Albania, which cultivated isolation; and Romania, which broke with Soviet patronage and sought ties with the West. One trait common to all was an imperial style of leadership.

The Soviet Union

Track the growth of communism in the United States, where the Great Depression was a golden age for recruitment, especially since the party treated all workers as equal victims of capitalism. Note how espionage often went hand in hand with party membership, and survey successive

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Stalin

Trace the rise of Joseph Stalin after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. As the second leader of the new Soviet state, Stalin fulfilled Lenin