What it felt like to live through the collapse of Communism - and Democracy.

Adam Curtis’ immersive history takes you through Russian society as it lived through a cataclysm that wrecked the lives of millions of people and tore apart the foundations of the whole society. What the Russians lived through in the 1990s was not just the end of communism, but the failure of democracy too. They experienced the collapse of the two great ideologies of our time in a period of less than ten years.

By 1999 the word democracy was used as a curse. A curse against your enemies.

It is out of that rage, the violence, the desperation and the overwhelming corruption that Vladimir Putin emerged. Show less