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Chapter 47: Triumph of the Bolsheviks — World History 101

How Lenin, Trotsky, and a small band of Marxist revolutionaries overthrew the Russian tsar, survived a civil war, and built the world’s first state organised around Communist ideology.
Chapter 49: The Terrifying Power of Stalinism — World History 101

How Joseph Stalin turned the Soviet state into a totalitarian instrument of his own will, killed twenty million of his own citizens, and still beat Nazi Germany.
Chapter 60: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union — World History 101

Stagnation, glasnost, perestroika, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the August 1991 coup that ended the USSR.