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Communism

1950 31 min Documentary Educational films

The film begins with a brief history of communism, from its inception in the ideas and writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to its rise in Russia during the tsarist regime. The film explains the conditions that led to the Russian Revolution and Moscow's role as the hub of world communism. Life in the Soviet Union under totalitarianism is compared to a life of freedom in the United States. The remainder of the…

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