Dallas Public Library

Tearing down the wall, the decline of socialism, CPB ; New River Media ; producer/director, Brittany Huckabee

eng

videorecording

Tearing down the wall

videorecording

CPB ; New River Media ; producer/director, Brittany Huckabee

58

the decline of socialism

Did the Soviet Union collapse under external pressure or its own weight? What enabled free market forces to assert themselves in China? Is socialism dead, or has it simply evolved? Episode three of the Heaven on Earth series addresses these and other questions, focusing on the political, cultural, and economic factors behind the fall of the iron curtain regimes. Outlining the Cultural Revolution and its consequences, the emergence of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, and the backfiring of the Soviet coup in 1991, the program demonstrates in detail how governments across the world abandoned socialism--some entirely, while others have maintained a tenuous facade.

general

live action