The Age of Uncertainty — Season 1, Episode 5: Lenin and the Great Ungluing
Documentary • 54 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
JK Galbraith examines WWI as an instrument in changing the old social order, and especially Lenin, who spent most of the war exiled in Switzerland urging soldiers to start a world revolution. A revolution did come, but Lenin nearly missed his chance to be part of it.
About The Age of Uncertainty
A 13-part personal view by John Kenneth Galbraith of the rise and crisis of Industrial Society.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
- E2The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
- E3The Dissent of Karl Marx
- E4The Colonial Idea
- E6The Rise and Fall of Money
- E7The Mandarin Revolution
- E8The Fatal Competition
- E9The Big Corporation
- E10Land and the People
- E11The Metropolis
- E12Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
- E13Weekend in Vermont - Part 1