22 Dissolving the USSR, Building a New Russia, 1985-2005

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22Dissolving the USSR, Building a New Russia,
1985-2005
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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

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B. Perestroika to Collapse

• Key dynamics
• Gorbachev New Thinking
• Perestroika uskorenie, glasnost,
  demokratizatsiia
• Crisis of USSR, 1989-91
• Political
• Nationality
• Economic stasis
• Dissolving the USSR
• Why did the USSR collapse?

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Satire Kosygin and Brezhnev
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Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev
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Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign
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August 1991 Mass Demonstration against the Putsch
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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

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Yeltsin 1996 Presidential Campaign
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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

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GDP Growth Rate (Percent)
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Russia Capital Investment Flows 1993-2003
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FDI East Europe and Russian Share, 1994-2001
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Average Monthly Pension1998-2005 (rubles)
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Putin Pensioners are not dogs
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St. Petersburg Demonstration demanding Putins
resignation
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Social Inequalities
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Bums dont sit here
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Decile Ratio (2001)
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Unemployment Rate 1990-2004
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Beslan Tragedy (Sept 2004)
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Moscow 1999 Terrorist Bombing
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Beslan Explosive Hung from Basketball Backboard
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Beslan Digging Graves for Victims
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Tycoons on Trial Khodorkovsky and Lebedev
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1993 Storming the White House
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Boris Berezovskii
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Anatolii Chubais
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Putin Black Belt
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Putin Copilot on Trip to Groznyi (2000)