Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone Season 1 Episode 3 - Part Three - 1991

Airdate: 2022-Oct-13

Episode summary:

The empire strikes back. The hardliners bring tanks to Moscow. But power slips through their shaking hands. The Oligarchs publish their manifesto for the future. Money will replace all ideologies. It is safer. Yeltsin seizes power and abolishes communism. Parts of the old Russian empire, including Chechnya and Ukraine, demand their freedom too.

About Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone series:

At the start of the 1990s the Soviet Union – one the largest empires in the world – imploded.It was not a slow collapse like the Britis...Show more >