Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union (TRIH ep 159)
1986 · Resource
This episode is the first of a short multi-part series tracing the late Soviet Union, its collapse and the rise of Vladimir Putin. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook set out the cultural and political background that shaped Putin — his 1952 birth in Leningrad, KGB career and posting to Dresden — and place him in the context of Soviet generations shaped by the Brezhnev era. The hosts discuss key late-Soviet leaders (Andropov, Chernenko) and focus on Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms (perestroika and...
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Around 1986
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)