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Enter Gorbachev
How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbachev …
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The Battle for Glasnost
Follows the attempted coup while Gorbachev was away in March 1988, at how the Kremlin tried to cover up the Chernobyl di…
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The Yeltsin File
How Boris Yeltsin rose to the top as a Soviet Communist Party official and how he came to fall out with Mikhail Gorbache…
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Revolution from Below
The first Congress of People's Deputies was elected in 1989, but a new rebelliousness was soon unleashed. Soviet miners …
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Breaking Ranks
At first nationalism in Lithuania, Armenia and elsewhere was encouraged, but the nationalists were demanding independenc…
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End of the Beginning
Gorbachev visited London in 1991 to ask world leaders for aid, and they demanded that he move to an open market economy.…
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Countdown to a Coup
Using interviews, traces the rising tensions, warning signs and machinations that preceded the attempted coup of August …
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Coup
The inside story of the coup told through interviews with Gorbachev himself, his aides, his family, and with Boris Yelts…
