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Published: March 15, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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