Yeltsin, Economic Chaos and President Putin (TRIH ep 161)
1990 · Resource
This episode — the third in a mini-series on recent Russian history — traces the chaotic 1990s that produced Vladimir Putin's rise. Using Robert Harris's novel Archangel as a prompt, the hosts compare post-Soviet Russia to the Weimar Republic and explain how economic shock therapy, mass privatization (voucher schemes) and the making of the oligarchs produced social collapse, hyperinflation and acute inequality.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1990
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)