BBC Teach | History | KS3 | Communism | BBC Teach @bbcteach | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
After introducing the term ‘communism’ and its origins in Mark and Engels’ pamphlet ‘The Communist Manifesto’, the video outlines the political ideology of communism. It covers the 1917 Russian Revolution, the foundation of the Soviet Union in 1922 and its power and influence in Eastern Europe and global politics during the Cold War.
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