Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

Ended First aired 13/Oct/2022 United Kingdom English 1 season(s) 7 episode(s)
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What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.
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Season 1 · Series 1
7 episode(s) · Air date: 13/Oct/2022
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What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

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What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

S1E7
Part Seven - 1995 to 1999
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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Suddenly the western bankers leave. Oligarchs take control and search for a new president to be their puppet. They choose Putin. Russians turn against “the curse of democracy".

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Suddenly the western bankers leave. Oligarchs take control and search for a new president to be their puppet. They choose Putin. Russians turn against “the curse of democracy".

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S1E6
Part Six - 1994 to 1998
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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The group around the president believe a war in Chechnya will save him. Others want the war to restore the glory of the Russian empire. The Oligarchs seize control of practically everything. In the upside down world gangsters become heroes for defending democracy.

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The group around the president believe a war in Chechnya will save him. Others want the war to restore the glory of the Russian empire. The Oligarchs seize control of practically everything. In the upside down world gangsters become heroes for defending democracy.

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Part Five - 1993 to 1996
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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Russian society implodes. Millions of people fall into the abyss. Many live underground or in forests. The president attacks parliament with tanks saying he is saving democracy.

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Russian society implodes. Millions of people fall into the abyss. Many live underground or in forests. The president attacks parliament with tanks saying he is saving democracy.

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Part Four - 1992 to 1994
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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Russia goes through the mirror into a chaotic dream world where nothing is stable any more. Dream visions of Russia's imperial past start to rise up. People cannot afford food.

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Russia goes through the mirror into a chaotic dream world where nothing is stable any more. Dream visions of Russia's imperial past start to rise up. People cannot afford food.

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Part Three - 1991
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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The empire strikes back. Hardliners attempt a coup. Power slips through their shaking hands. Oligarchs publish a manifesto. Money will replace all ideology. Yeltsin seizes power.

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The empire strikes back. Hardliners attempt a coup. Power slips through their shaking hands. Oligarchs publish a manifesto. Money will replace all ideology. Yeltsin seizes power.

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Part Two - 1989 to 1991
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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There are no potatoes in Moscow. Things get worse. Then they get much worse as the rational Communist plan runs out of control everywhere. But McDonald’s opens in Moscow.

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There are no potatoes in Moscow. Things get worse. Then they get much worse as the rational Communist plan runs out of control everywhere. But McDonald’s opens in Moscow.

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Part One - 1985 to 1989
Air date: 13/Oct/2022 · Time: 06:00 · Runtime: 60 min
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Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But no-one believes in anything any longer. The managers loot the system. Soldiers return defeated in the war to liberate Afghanistan.

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Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But no-one believes in anything any longer. The managers loot the system. Soldiers return defeated in the war to liberate Afghanistan.

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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
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Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis
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Rose Garnett
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Sandra Gorel
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