Faith of the Century - A History of Communism - Part 4 - End Without End (1954-1993)

The death of Stalin reveals the turpitudes of the regime hitherto hidden. In 1956, the Khrushchev report is overwhelming on the practice of power of his predecessor. The Hungarian uprisings in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968 demonstrate the will of peoples to free themselves from enslavement. In the 1970s, revolutionary messianism suffered a serious setback with the failure of Third World revolutions, the boat-people phenomenon and the Cambodian genocide. Henceforth, the communist parties had to fight to make an alternative credible, but the working class was to deal the fatal blow to the ideology of Marxist progress with the events in Gdansk in the summer of 1980. The fall of the Wall of Berlin ratifies only one state of fact, the end of the dreams of power of the Soviet Union, until its decay and its bursting. A film by Patrick Rotman, Patrick Barberis Produced by Michel Rotman Written by Patrice Chereau Series of documentaries Faith of the Century All episodes: Utopia in Po