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. They recount Yeltsin's political struggles, the 1993 constitutional crisis when ta...
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