The Fall of the Soviet Union (TRIH ep 160)
1991 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the collapse of the Soviet Union, tracing developments from the late 1980s through 1991. They examine Mikhail Gorbachev’s dilemmas between reformers and hardliners, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin as a populist rival. The hosts describe economic breakdown, shortages, and the social disorientation produced by glasnost and perestroika. They recount key episodes: televised Congresses of People’s Deputies, the Vilnius violence, the failed August 1991 coup,...
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- Gulf War (1990)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
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- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
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- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
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