Did the individual really gain power in the political process and in the workplace in the 20th century? This program looks at how the Russian revolution changed the peaceful image of socialism to violent revolt, and gave the Soviet people the false impression that they controlled their own destinies. Gandhi’s pacifist resistance to British rule in India offered an alternative and influential image of popular struggle, which found echoes in the civil rights movements in the U.S. and South Africa. The program also contrasts the success of the labor movement and the rise of unions in the U.S. and in Britain. The program features the eyewitness accounts of a contemporary of Gandhi’s, a British trade union leader, and a U.S. senator who was an influential radical student leader in the 1960s. (49 minutes)