If you are looking for the "Janet and John" version of the rise of Communism around the globe, then you could do worse than this enthusiastically narrated lecture on just how this doctrine rose to prominence throughout the world. From czarist Russia through the Second World War and the emergence of the Soviet Union to uprisings in Cuba, China and South America, this superficially describes just how the situations in many places were ripe for a bit of socialist revolutionary politics. There is no attempt at balance here: it isn't a documentary at all, really. It is more of a critique on those a…
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