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

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22 Dissolving the USSR, Building a New Russia,

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 dynamics 2.Gorbachev: “New Thinking” 3.Perestroika: uskorenie, glasnost’, demokratizatsiia 4.Crisis of USSR, 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 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

FDI: East Europe and Russian Share,

Average Monthly Pension (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

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)