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Title: Welcome Back


1
Welcome Back!
  • Tonight
  • Review
  • Popular Culture of 1970s 1980s
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Gorbachev Reforms
  • Perceptions of Gorbachev
  • Rise of Yeltsin
  • Coup of 1991
  • Collapse of the USSR

2
Yuri Andropov 1982-1984
Head of the KGB under Brezhnev Ambassador to
Hungary Made decision to invade
Hungary Anti-alcohol campaign Slightly Stalinist
in his approach
3
Konstantin CHERNENKO
  • Feb-April 1984 (died 1984)
  • Paper Pusher
  • Repression of dissidents strong

4
Mikhail Sergeevich GORBACHEV
  • 1985-1991
  • Glasnost (openness)
  • Perestroika (restructuring)
  • Uskoreniye (acceleration of
  • economic dev)
  • Alcohol and tobacco reform
  • (economic destroyer)!!

5
DISCUSS
  • Discuss History of the relationship b/t alcohol
    and the economy in Russia
  • Compare and contrast Lenins NEP with Gorbachevs
    uskroseniye reforms

6
DISCUSS
  • Sinatra Doctrine vs. Brezhnev Doctrine
  • Eastern Bloc countries going their own way vs.
    Tight control by USSR over EE countries
  • Withdrawal from Afghanistan
  • Severe shortages but freedom of speech
  • Continuing repression of political dissidence (
    but less than under Brezhnev)
  • Democratization multi-party system
  • BACKFIRES!

7
DISCUSS
  • Overall stability of USSR
  • Was Stalin the last great ruler of USSR?
  • Did it ever have a chance of succeeding?
  • Main differences b/t Russia and China?
  • True or False? Gorbachev wanted a true social
    democracy

8
1991 Coup and Collapse
  • Gang of 8
  • House arrest at Foros
  • Return of Gorbachev plotters arrested
  • Yeltsin massive popular support
  • Hardline Communist party lashing out at Gorbachev
    and Yeltsin

9
August 1991
  • Hardliners arrest Gorbachev to take control of
    Central Party
  • Yeltsin rushes to the White House
  • Military called upon by General to fire on White
    House and crush uprising
  • Popular uprising causes military to abandon posts
  • Yeltsin ever popular
  • Gorbachev totally weakened the death knell

10
DISCUSS
  • Role of minority nations in collapse of USSR
  • Did collapse happen overnight or gradually?
  • Can you pinpoint EXACTLY when the USSR began to
    collapse?
  • Was it under Gorbachev or before?
  • What about the role of Afghanistan and détente
    with the West?

11
Boris YELTSIN
12
Boris YELTSIN
  • Construction Commissar in Sverdlovsk
  • Destroyed the Ipatiev House with Tsar murdered
  • Mayor of Moscow 1985-1987
  • Big Commie, friends with Gorby
  • Bit of a blowhard guy, fights with Gorby,
    criticism, and losing his position
  • Critical of Gorby and his reforms, critical of
    the Central Committee, very vocal
  • Party began smear campaign against him, he
    attempted suicide
  • Portrayed as an insane drunk ( a favorite ploy)
  • His criticism of Gorbachev tapped into the
    popular sentiment
  • He began to be heard by the people and gains
    popularity
  • Elected to political positions in the Party had
    both liberal and conservative supporters

13
Something to Understand
  • Gorbachev President of USSR
  • Yeltsin President of Russian Federation

14
June, 1991
  • First popular political elections in USSR
  • Yeltsin effectively overthrows Gorbachev after
    the August coup
  • He votes with Ukraine and Belarus to dissolve the
    USSR
  • December 24, 1991 Russia takes seat at UN
  • December 25, 1991USSR officially dissolved

15
CIS
  • Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Trade Block / Political Alliance (Economics,
    Defense, Foreign Policy)
  • Members Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
    Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Russia,
    Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
    (2005)

16
THE ENDof the Soviet Union
  • To be continued
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