Cold War on CNN, Part 24: Conclusion 1989-1991
It is the twilight of the Soviet empire. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kremlin loses its iron-fisted grip on Eastern Europe. As events spiral out of control, Mikhail Gorbachev finds his authority challenged from within -- both by communist hard-liners, and by a popular reformer named Boris Y...
| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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| Language: | English |
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Jeremy Isaacs Productions
1998
United Kingdom |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:f019dbb6-20c3-4b02-b944-709ca077a762 |
| Summary: | It is the twilight of the Soviet empire. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kremlin loses its iron-fisted grip on Eastern Europe. As events spiral out of control, Mikhail Gorbachev finds his authority challenged from within -- both by communist hard-liners, and by a popular reformer named Boris Yeltsin. |
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| Published: | 1998 |