Seasons & Episodes
Enter Gorbachev
How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbachev
The Battle for Glasnost
Follows the attempted coup while Gorbachev was away in March 1988, at how the Kremlin tried to cover up the Chernobyl di
The Yeltsin File
How Boris Yeltsin rose to the top as a Soviet Communist Party official and how he came to fall out with Mikhail Gorbache
Revolution from Below
The first Congress of People's Deputies was elected in 1989, but a new rebelliousness was soon unleashed. Soviet miners
Breaking Ranks
At first nationalism in Lithuania, Armenia and elsewhere was encouraged, but the nationalists were demanding independenc
End of the Beginning
Gorbachev visited London in 1991 to ask world leaders for aid, and they demanded that he move to an open market economy.
Portents
The rising tensions, warning signs and machinations that preceded Gorbachev's arrest while on holiday.
Coup
The inside story of the coup is told by Gorbachev himself and all those who were closest to him.
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