communism

Segment 1: China’s Long March (3:33 min); Segment 2: China’s Challenge to Unite its Ethnic Groups (3:12 min); Segment 3: The Rise of China’s Economy (3:27 min)

The History Channel’s take on Mao Zedong, a giant controversial figure who transformed China at the expense of 40-70 million lives. (42 min, 5 segments)

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, largely ignored by the West, Russia and the former Soviet Bloc has become the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. (46 min, 6 segments)