1. 22 Dissolving the USSR, Building a New Russia, 1985-2005

2. 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

3. 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?

4. Satire: Kosygin and Brezhnev

5. Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev

6. Gorbachev: Anti-Alcohol Campaign

7. August 1991: Mass Demonstration against the Putsch

8. 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

9. Yeltsin: 1996 Presidential Campaign

10. 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

11. GDP Growth Rate (Percent)

12. Russia: Capital Investment Flows 1993-2003

13. FDI: East Europe and Russian Share, 1994-2001

14. Average Monthly Pension 1998-2005 (rubles)

15. “Putin: Pensioners are not dogs”

16. St. Petersburg: Demonstration demanding Putin’s resignation

17. Social Inequalities

18. “Bums: don’t sit here”

19. Decile Ratio (2001)

20. Unemployment Rate 1990-2004

21. Beslan Tragedy (Sept 2004)

22. Moscow 1999 Terrorist Bombing

23. Beslan: Explosive Hung from Basketball Backboard

24. Beslan: Digging Graves for Victims

25. Tycoons on Trial: Khodorkovsky and Lebedev

26. 1993: Storming the “White House”

27. Boris Berezovskii

28. Anatolii Chubais

29. Putin: Black Belt

30. Putin: Copilot on Trip to Groznyi (2000)