The Soviet Union was the biggest social experiment in history. This course covers the domestic history of the Soviet Union and covers:

Lesson 1 - The Soviet inheritance and the Bolshevik seizure of power.

Lesson 2 -  War communism, the Civil war and the wars on the Western frontier. 1918 - 1921

Lesson 3 - The transformation of the Russian Empire from a single territory to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Lesson 4 - State Capitalism in a communist state. The New Economic Policy, 1921 - 1929.

Lesson 5 - The rise of Stalin 1923 - 1929

Lesson 6 - The planned ecoonomy, industrialisation, collectivisation and famine.

Lesson 7 - Stalins purge of the Communist Party.

Lesson 8 - The Red Army purge, the Polish and Baltic conquests, and the Great Patriotic War.

Lesson 9 - The problems of economic imbalance in the planned economy.

Lesson 10 -  Khruschev and de Stalinisation

Lesson 11 - Khruschev and the failed reforms of indsutry and agriculture.

Lesson 12 - The Soviet Union under Brezhnev - 1964 - 1982

Lesson 13 - Life inside the USSR in 1980.

Lesson 14 - The USSR's forgotten leaders. Andropov and Chernenko.

Lesson 15 - The Gorbachev reforms, 1985 - 1989

Lesson 16 - The Fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 / 1991