here you can see all of the works of marx engels over here is lenin even here the writings of joseph stalin and the version of monopoly that they play is called class struggle to prepare for life in capitalist america where the object is to win the revolution of workers when it's socialism and capitalism when it's barbarism talking to people around the bric forum it seems many are trying to implement the change they're studying without uttering the s. or c. is in communism word now it's more positive to say progressive or less whatever you want to call it they are actively trying to solve the problems and inequality they see in the country which is an attempt to make change but maybe right now it's not in terms of a revolution but of working from within which you can call any number of things but probably not unpatriotic lauren lyster r.t. new york. how do you get the latest on everything we're covering here on our website that's r.t. dot com let's now take a look at our what's being done right now. while the economic blame game in the u.s. continues americans still struggle with unemployme

the -- departure from that is when i played joseph stalin on television. i took it out. i hadn't seen it in 20 years. i said, i think i did okay. the final scene with my daughter, i said, i don't think i could do any better. then you know, who knows what some people like, some don't. and nikita mchale's father, was stalin's personal poet. eight times he worked with stalin and wrote the national anthem and when he saw the movie, he liked it and what di. that was -- i don't read very views, but that's the greatest review i ever got. when i touched the soul of stalin. he knew stalin. when i went to hbo they were not well organized. i never knew the guy was alive until i got back to the states. nobody introduced me to him. it would have helped my research. that was -- i don't look at my work that often but -- that -- that -- it was very different from something like lone some dove and different from something like to kill a mockingbird and the other things with horton foot that di. tavis: when you say you think lone some dove was your favorite. tell me why. >> here's a guy t

here you can see all of the works of marx engels over here is lenin even here the writings of joseph stalin and the version of monopoly that they play is called class struggle to prepare for life in a capitalist america where the object is to win the revolution of workers when it socialism capitalists when it's barbarism talking to people around the brics forum it seems many are trying to implement the change they're studying without uttering that yes or see as in communism word now it's more positive to say progressive or less whatever you want to call it they are actively trying to solve the problems and inequality they see in the country which is an attempt to make change but maybe right now it's not in terms of a revolution but of working from within which you can call any number of things but probably not petri arctic lauren lyster r t new york. for more news on this is. right now europe sees a spike in the number of arrests of terror suspects raising questions with a poor background check some of your son and see who's to blame. for dogs about mystical messages between you and spirits

great leap forward starts at the end of 19571 of the great reasons is the death of a man called joseph stalin. of the death of stalin is mao's liberation he is very much indebted to stalin and sees himself as the real leader of the socialist camp. think about it. stolid never led the bolshevik revolution, london did. mouse sees himself at to humanity as what he describes as liberation. mouth is the one of thought the americans to a standstill in the korean war. after mao's death one roach sound -- rotund and awkward man succeed him and mao has very little respect for the% when he goes to moscow 1957 and he openly proclaims that the soviet union will overtake the united states in the production of butter, milk, other dairy products, now says we will overtake england you may take united states and we will seek to takeover england still seen as a major power within the great 15 years and then make that leap forward but most of all what mao really wishes to demonstrate not the ability to overtake england but outdo the soviets. to show that mao or chris jeff has realized the bridge to communism. w

snyder history professor at yale university recounts the mass killings overseen by a lot of fer and joseph stalin from 1933 to 1945. mr. snyder examines the region between berlin and moscow that he dubbed the blood lands. 14 million people were killed over the 12 year period. timothy snyder discusses his book at the ukrainian institute of america in new york city. it's an hour and ten minutes. 64. it's a delight to be here. i appreciate you taking an hour of this bright and perfect afternoon in new york to spend it listening to an account of what may be the single darkest chapter in the history of the modern west. what i would like to talk to you about this afternoon is a catastrophe. a catastrophe in which 14 million people, chiefly children and women in the ages were killed over the space of just 12 years by two regimes, the nazi german regime and the stalinist regime in the soviet union. this total figure of 14 million is in itself i think astonishing it is too large to grasp and i will return to what that means and how we might try to grasp that but it's also a number that tells us something