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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

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

Series 1: 1. Part One - 1985 to 1989 (59 mins)

Series 1: 1. Part One - 1985 to 1989
Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But the oligarchs start to loot the system.
59 mins
Series 1: 2. Part Two - 1989 to 1991
No potatoes in Moscow. The Soviet plan runs out of control. But McDonald鈥檚 opens.
59 mins
Series 1: 3. Part Three - 1991
Hardliners try a coup. Power slips through their shaking hands. Money replaces ideology.
59 mins
Series 1: 4. Part Four - 1992 to 1994
Russia goes through the mirror to a chaotic dream world where nothing is stable any more.
59 mins
Series 1: 5. Part Five - 1993 to 1996
Russian society implodes. Yeltsin attacks parliament with tanks to save democracy.
57 mins
Series 1: 6. Part Six - 1994 to 1998
Yeltsin believes a war in Chechnya will save him, while gangsters become heroes.
59 mins
Series 1: 7. Part Seven - 1995 to 1999
Oligarchs choose Putin as their puppet. Russians turn against the 'curse of democracy'.
60 mins