The Last Empire (Plokhy, 2014)
1991 · Resource
Serhii Plokhy's account of the Soviet Union's final five months, from the August coup to the Christmas Day resignation — with Washington, wanting Gorbachev to survive, watching helplessly.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1991
- War on Terror (2001)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)