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.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1991
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)