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  2. Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone - Wikipedia

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    Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (subtitled in promotional media as What It Felt Like to Live Through The Collapse of Communism and Democracy) is a seven-part BBC documentary television series created by Adam Curtis. It was released on BBC iPlayer on 13 October 2022.

  3. Predictions of the collapse of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    In a symposium launched in 1967 to review Michel Garder's French book: L'Agonie du Regime en Russie Sovietique (The Death Struggle of the Regime in Soviet Russia), which predicted a collapse of the USSR, Yale Professor Frederick C. Barghoorn dismissed Garder's book as "the latest in a long line of apocalyptic predictions of the collapse of ...

  4. History of communism in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Efforts to build communism in Russia began after the success of the February Revolution in 1917, and ended with the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The Provisional Government was established under the liberal and social-democratic government; however, the Bolsheviks refused to accept the government and revolted in October 1917 , taking control ...

  5. Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The lifting of total censorship and communist propaganda led to disclosure to public of such political and historical issues as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Katyn massacre, revision of the Stalinist repressions, revision of the Russian Civil War, the White movement, the New Economic Policy, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, censorship ...

  6. The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in ...

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    Focusing on the decades of unrest that precipitated 1989's tumultuous events, Stokes provides a history of the various communist regimes and the opposition movements that brought them down, including the "March Days" and Solidarity, the 1975 Helsinki Accords, Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 opposition movement, and the autocratic policies of ...

  7. War communism - Wikipedia

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    The deadly Russian famine of 1921–22, which killed about five million people battered an already war-torn Russia, Vladimir Lenin's war communism policies took an unintended negative turn. [21] [22] The measure were harsh, but it did help the Bolsheviks to win the Civil War and stabilize the crisis of the nation.

  8. Revolutions of 1989 - Wikipedia

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    On 1 June 1989 the Communist Party admitted that former prime minister Imre Nagy, hanged for treason for his role in the 1956 Hungarian uprising, was executed illegally after a show trial. [52] On 16 June 1989 Nagy was given a solemn funeral on Budapest's largest square in front of crowds of at least 100,000, followed by a hero's burial. [53]

  9. History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991) - Wikipedia

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    The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (Basic Books, 2005). Downing, Taylor. Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink (2018) d'Encausse, Hélène Carrère, The End of the Soviet Empire: The Triumph of the Nations (Basic Books, 1992), ISBN 0-465-09818-5; Fenzel, Michael R (2020).