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Why the Soviet Union Collapsed

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Why the Soviet Union Collapsed

How did a nuclear superpower disappear in 1991? This documentary traces economic stagnation, shortages, Afghanistan, perestroika, glasnost, nationalism, the Berlin Wall, the August coup and the final decisions that dissolved the USSR.

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Chapters

  1. How a superpower ended
  2. Power from the centre
  3. The era of stagnation
  4. The war in Afghanistan
  5. Gorbachev takes power
  6. Glasnost opens the record
  7. The republics push back
  8. Eastern Europe breaks free
  9. The economy unravels
  10. The coup that destroyed the centre
  11. The final days
  12. Why the Soviet Union collapsed

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