The Fall of the Soviet Union
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Introduction
30 years ago, there was an attempted coup in the soviet union. Makail gobashov was temporarily imprisoned as hard liners sought to re establish authoritarian rule. The coue failed after three days, and it eventually led to collapse of communism. That is a story that has not yet come to an end. And talk about that collapse of sovietn i've got the very brilliant peter kenesh. He specializes in russian eastern european history,. As you'll hear in this episode.
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