Documentary HackTraumaZone: Russia 1995-1999By Adam Curtis
In a Nutshell
In episode seven of the October 2022 BBC docuseries TraumaZone, writer-director Adam Curtis details the demise of Russian communism and democracy between 1995 and 1999.
Favorite Quote
As far as organized crime is concerned, it's a bunch of people working for the state … Bankers, the Mayor's office, and the city council. They're all corrupt.
Nikolai Driakilev, Chief Detective of Saint Petersburg
Introduction
The fall of the USSR brought hope that Russia would become a prosperous democracy. By the end of the 1990s, it was clear this optimism had been misplaced.
Adam Curtis is an award-winning documentarian whose distinct style splices together diverse archive footage to document the politics, economics, history, psychology, and sociology behind pivotal world events.
The BBC docuseries TraumaZone charts the end of the USSR and Russia's transition to democracy from 1985 to 1999.
In the seventh and last episode, writer-director Adam Curtis illustrates the disastrous outcomes of Russian democracy in the late 1990s.
Throughout the series, Curtis uses archival footage – the majority filmed by BBC staff over 35 years – to showcase life across Russia when communism, then democracy, both failed.
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