Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Poisoning the Soil

Directed by Brian Knappenberger
TV-14
S1 • E2    Mar 11, 2024    64m
7.7
As communism takes off in Russia and China, Joseph Stalin begins his ruthless reign and the Soviet Union enters an era of terror.

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Cast of Poisoning the Soil

  • Susan GlasserSelf - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising
  • Kaja KallasSelf - Prime Minister of Estonia
  • Arkady OstrovskySelf - Author, The Invention of Russia
  • Giorgi KandelakiSelf - Georgian Politician & Historian
  • Tom NicholsSelf - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College
  • Masha LipmanSelf - Russian Journalist
  • Tim NaftaliSelf - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
  • Serhii PlokhySelf - The Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Pavel LitvinovSelf - Grandson of Maxim Litvinov
  • Anne ApplebaumSelf - Author, Red Famine
  • Tim WeinerSelf - Author, Legacy of Ashes
  • Mary SarotteSelf - Author, Not One Inch
  • Nina Lvovna KhrushchevaSelf - Professor of International Affairs, The New School
  • Scott AndersonSelf - Author, The Quiet Americans
  • Garrett GraffSelf - Author, Raven Rock
  • Timothy Garton AshSelf - Author, Homelands
  • Rose GottemoellerSelf - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019
  • Jens StoltenbergSelf - Secretary General of NATO
  • Miles YuSelf - Professor of East Asia Military History, U.S. Naval Academy
  • David HollowaySelf - Author, Stalin and the Bomb
  • Gregg HerkenSelf - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb
  • Alex WellersteinSelf - Author, Restricted Data
  • Robert MeeropolSelf - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
  • Becky JenkinsSelf - Daughter of American Communists
  • Lori CluneSelf - Author, Executing the Rosenbergs
  • Donald RitchieSelf - Senate Historian Emeritus
  • Howard A. RodmanSelf - Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
  • Lee GrantSelf - Actress
  • Larry TyeSelf - Author, Demagogue
  • Tom Z. CollinaSelf - Co-Author, The Button
  • Daniel EllsbergSelf - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower
  • Lavrentiy BeriaSelf - Chief of Soviet Police
  • Herbert J. BibermanSelf - Director & Screenwriter
  • J. Edward BrombergSelf - Actor
  • Winston ChurchillSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945
  • Roy CohnSelf - Chief Counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy
  • Bob ConsidineSelf - Journalist
  • Gary CooperSelf - Actor
  • Friedrich EngelsSelf - Political Theorist
  • James ForrestalSelf - First Secretary of Defense 1947
  • Klaus FuchsSelf - German Theoretical Physicist & Atomic Spy
  • Harry GoldSelf - Spy Courier
  • David GreenglassSelf - U.S. Machinist & Atomic Spy for Soviet Union
  • Ruth GreenglassSelf - Wife of David Greenglass
  • Andrei GurulyovSelf - State Duma Party
  • Johan KartusSelf - Kaja Kallas' Grandfather
  • Kristi KartusSelf - Kaja Kallas' Mother
  • Veera KartusSelf - Kaja Kallas' Grandmother
  • George KennanSelf - Chargé d'Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Moscow
  • Vladimir LeninSelf - Bolshevik Leader
  • Maxim LitvinovSelf - Founding Member of the Bolsheviks
  • Mao ZedongSelf - Leader of China 1943 - 1976
  • Rudolf MarkewitzSelf - West Berlin City Council
  • Karl MarxSelf - Political Theorist
  • Joseph McCarthySelf - U.S. Senator, Wisconsin
  • Michael MeeropolSelf - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
  • Vladimir PutinSelf - President of Russia
  • Leonid Konstantinovitch RamzinSelf - Engineer Accused of Plotting Coup
  • Ethel RosenbergSelf - Atomic Spy
  • Julius RosenbergSelf - Atomic Spy
  • Irving SaypolSelf - Chief Prosecutor
  • Joseph StalinSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953
  • Stuart SymingtonSelf - U.S. Senator, Missouri
  • Edward TellerSelf - U.S. Nuclear Physicist
  • J. Parnell ThomasSelf - Chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities
  • Leon TrotskySelf - Marxist Revolutionary
  • Harry S. TrumanSelf - President of the United States 1945 - 1953
  • Dalton TrumboSelf - Screenwriter
  • Donald TrumpSelf - New York Real Estate Developer
  • Fred TrumpSelf - New York Real Estate Developer
  • Joseph N. WelchSelf - Special Counsel for the Army
  • Gennady ZyuganovSelf - Leader of Russian Communist Party Faction
  • Aylam OrianVladimir Putin
  • Brian KnappenbergerDirector
  • Adam KaplanProducer
  • Sabrina ParkeProducer
  • Alexandra PoolosProducer

 

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