Transcript Dissolving the USSR, Building a New Russia

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Dissolving the USSR, Building a
New Russia, 1985-2005
A. Main Themes
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Soviet crisis of the 1980s
Disestablishing the USSR
From perestroika to katastroika
Yeltsin era: political collapse, corruption,
social crisis
5. Putin era: rebuilding the state and
economy
B. Perestroika to Collapse
1. Key dynamics
2. Gorbachev: “New Thinking”
3. Perestroika: uskorenie, glasnost’,
demokratizatsiia
4. Crisis of USSR, 1989-91
a. Political
b. Nationality
c. Economic stasis
5. Dissolving the USSR
6. 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
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Putin profile
An agenda for reform and rebuilding
Economic recovery
Social question
Terror: Chechnia
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 Pension
1998-2005 (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
Anatolii Chubais
Putin: Black Belt
Putin: Copilot on Trip to Groznyi
(2000)