Rise and Fall of Socialism

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism is a 3 hour PBS documentary film (sometimes recut as a 3 episodes documental mini-series) hosted by Ben Wattenberg and narrated by Henry Strozier. Its companion book is Joshua Muravchik's 2003 book of the same name, which covers around the same material and follows pretty much the same structure (although it is has a first chapter on Babeuf's Conspiracy of Equals, it adds George Meany to the Samuel Gompers chapter, the Kibbutz data are all in one conclusion, the Tanganyica/Tanzania chapter on Third World Socialism is not divided in two, just like the chapter on Gorbachev is not, and the decay of the Labour Party and rise of Thatcher in the 1970s are just referred in the beginning of the Blair chapter). It premiered in June 2005. According to the film's official site: «This 3-hour documentary explores one of the most powerful political ideas in history. Socialism spread farther and faster than any religion. Then, in almost the blink of an eye, it all collapsed. What happened?»