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Thanks to Sherman Commander for sponsoring this video! Check out Sherman Commander on steam: https://tinyurl.com/mz4hyeze Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with the second part of our video series looking at the development of the Soviet economy. This episode looks at the state of the Soviet economy under Leonid Brezhnev, the expansion and increased reliance of oil and gas revenue and how that allowed rot to entrench itself in the system. The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #USSR #Soviet #SovietUnion #economics #brezhnev #oil #Oileconomy #stagnation **SOURCES** Gregory, Paul R. 2001. Behind the Façade of Stalin’s Command Economy : Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives. 1st ed. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University. Gatrell, Peter. 1986. The Tsarist Economy 1850-1917. Batsford. Spulber, Nicolas. 2003. Russia’s Economic Transitions : From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press. Lieven, Dominic, ed. 2006. The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917. Cambridge University Press. Zubok, Vladislav, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union", Yale University Press, 2022 Davies, R. W, and University of Birmingham. Centre for Russian and East European Studies. 1990. From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy : Continuity and Change in the USSR Economy. Macmillan in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Hanson, Philip. 2003. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy : An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. Longman. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviet-economy-1917-1991-its-life-and-afterlife https://insider.iea.org.uk/p/a-brief-history-of-the-soviet-economy Malle, Silvana. 1985. The Economic Organization of War Communism 1918-1921. Cambridge University Press.