Shadows on Red Square

Article Abstract:

An independence movement in Ukraine is threatening the struggle for national unity in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev are attempting to hold the country together amid extensive economic problems.

Ukraine, National liberation movements, Defense spending, Defence spending

---

Freedom's year

Article Abstract:

The year of 1991 in Soviet Union politics is reviewed, including the fall from power of Mikhail Gorbachev as democracy swept the country. It appears Boris Yeltsin will now lead the new commonwealth.

Democracy

---

Red is dead

Article Abstract:

The response of the Soviet people and army personnel to the coup attempt altered the course of the government, crippling the Communist Party and caused the dissolution of the USSR.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Coups d'etat, Soviets (People), Soviet Union. Army

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Chalk and fees. Independents' day. Close encounters
• Abstracts: An Afghan mystery. A new breed of soldier. A win in the fog of war: after weeks of false starts, the Northern Alliance advances on the Taliban in the north, taking Mazur-e Sharif. As our allies fight to press on, the U.S. command is asking for more resources including the Marines
• Abstracts: Lost action heroes. From bugs to jugs. Comic relief
• Abstracts: Supercomputing's speed quest. I.B.M. triples speed of its data servers
• Abstracts: The precarious growth of the software empire: bit-eating bugs and computer crashes. Plugging the gap between E-mail and video-conferencing: Group Technologies's Aspects software lets people at far-flung sites work on a project simultaneously

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.