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Season 1 Episode 7: After Stalin

Thaw is conceivable with Stalin dead and Eisenhower in the White House. Stalin's chief of secret police is arrested and shot.Krushchev outmaneuvers Malenkov, for power and visits the West.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Comrades

1. Comrades

Aired: Sep 19, 1998

Though ideological enemies, the Soviet Union and the United States are allies...

Episode 2 Iron Curtain

2. Iron Curtain

Aired: Sep 26, 1998

The Soviet Union dominates Eastern Europe. Churchill warns about the conseque...

Episode 3 Marshall Plan

3. Marshall Plan

Aired: Oct 3, 1998

The United States adopts the Truman Doctrine--it will defend freedom, worldwi...

Episode 4 Berlin

4. Berlin

Aired: Oct 10, 1998

Berlin is a Western enclave in Eastern Europe. The Soviets blockade the city,...

Episode 5 Korea

5. Korea

Aired: Oct 17, 1998

Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China--the country is now lost ...

Episode 6 Reds

6. Reds

Aired: Oct 30, 1998

The world is polarized across an ideological divide. Following Stalin's domin...

Episode 7 After Stalin

7. After Stalin

Aired: Nov 6, 1998

Thaw is conceivable with Stalin dead and Eisenhower in the White House. Stali...

Episode 8 Sputnik

8. Sputnik

Aired: Nov 13, 1998

In the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union seems to be forging ahead. In October 1957...

Episode 9 The Wall

9. The Wall

Aired: Nov 20, 1998

Stalin's death has brought about détente, but the fate of Germany is unresolv...

Episode 10 Cuba

10. Cuba

Aired: Nov 27, 1998

Contemplating U.S. missile power installed around the Soviet periphery, Krush...

Episode 11 Vietnam

11. Vietnam

Aired: Dec 11, 1998

Since the end of the French colonial rule, Vietnam has been divided. The nort...

Episode 12 M.A.D.

12. M.A.D.

Aired: Dec 11, 1998

The USA and the USSR confront each other, each armed with nuclear weapons. Ea...

Episode 13 Make Love Not War

13. Make Love Not War

Aired: Feb 12, 1999

Western Economies grow and prosper, fueled partly by armaments production. Re...

Episode 14 Red Spring

14. Red Spring

Aired: Feb 19, 1999

In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, denial of freedom and incentive stifl...

Episode 15 China

15. China

Aired: Feb 26, 1999

Chinese Communists are victorious in the longest civil war in 20th century hi...

Episode 16 Detente

16. Detente

Aired: Mar 5, 1999

The North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United...

Episode 17 Good Guys, Bad Guys

17. Good Guys, Bad Guys

Aired: Mar 12, 1999

Across the world, the two superpowers back surrogates engaging in ideological...

Episode 18 Backyard

18. Backyard

Aired: Mar 19, 1999

The United States has always regarded Latin America as its own back yard. In ...

Episode 19 Freeze

19. Freeze

Aired: Mar 26, 1999

As the United States absorbs the hike in OPEC oil prices and concerns for hum...

Episode 20 Soldiers of God

20. Soldiers of God

Aired: Apr 11, 1999

Afghanistan is a brutal war that costs the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet cons...

Episode 21 Spies

21. Spies

Aired: Apr 18, 1999

Even before the end of World War II, spies prepare for post-war world order. ...

Episode 22 Star Wars

22. Star Wars

Aired: Apr 25, 1999

Ronald Reagan pledges to defeat the "evil empire," but abhors the idea of nuc...

Episode 23 The Wall Comes Down

23. The Wall Comes Down

Aired: May 2, 1999

The dominoes fall: incredibly quickly, the Soviet bloc is breaking up, virtua...

Episode 24 Conclusions

24. Conclusions

Aired: May 9, 1999

The United States proves the stronger and the Soviet Union implodes. The bala...

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