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Dissolving the USSR, Building a New Russia, 1985-2005
A. Main Themes
1. Soviet crisis of the 1980s
2. Disestablishing the USSR
3. From perestroika to katastroika
4. Yeltsin era: political collapse, corruption, social crisis
5. Putin era: rebuilding the state and economy
B. Perestroika to Collapse
1. Key dynamics2. Gorbachev: “New Thinking”3. Perestroika: uskorenie, glasnost’,
demokratizatsiia4. Crisis of USSR, 1989-91
a. Politicalb. Nationalityc. Economic stasis
5. Dissolving the USSR6. Why did the USSR collapse?
Satire: Kosygin and Brezhnev
Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev: Anti-Alcohol Campaign
August 1991: Mass Demonstration against the Putsch
C. Yeltsin Era
1. Dismantling the state
2. Shock therapy and post-Soviet depression
3. Cultural emancipation
4. Social polarization
5. Foreign policy: ally and disenchantment
Yeltsin: 1996 Presidential Campaign
C. Putin: Rebuilding and Reforming
1. Putin profile
2. An agenda for reform and rebuilding
3. Economic recovery
4. Social question
5. Terror: Chechnia
6. Foreign policy: reasserting Russian interests
GDP Growth Rate (Percent)
Russia: Capital Investment Flows 1993-2003
FDI: East Europe and Russian Share, 1994-2001
Average Monthly Pension1998-2005 (rubles)
“Putin: Pensioners are not dogs”
St. Petersburg: Demonstration demanding Putin’s resignation
Social Inequalities
“Bums: don’t sit here”
Decile Ratio (2001)
Unemployment Rate 1990-2004
Beslan Tragedy (Sept 2004)
Moscow 1999 Terrorist Bombing
Beslan: Explosive Hung from Basketball Backboard
Beslan: Digging Graves for Victims
Tycoons on Trial: Khodorkovsky and Lebedev
1993: Storming the “White House”
Boris Berezovskii
Putin: Black Belt
Putin: Copilot on Trip to Groznyi (2000)