Search


	Podcast:		The History Hour
	Episode:		The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:50:28
	Publish Date:		2016-12-31 10:29:00
	Description:		December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing crisis in one of the newly independent states, and from an American nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR. Also, the performance artist protesting about the growing divide between rich and poor, and the first editor of Vogue magazine in Russia. Photo: The leaders of Ukraine and Belorussia, alongside Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, at the ceremony formally dissolving the USSR in December 1991, Credit: AP
	Total Play:		0