The 1991 Coup and Russia under Yeltsin
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- The 1991 Coup and Russia under Yeltsin
- The Coup
- Hardline communists launched a coup and took comunication points and detained Gorbachev
- This threatened to end the détente that Gorbachev had established
- Yeltsin made an emotional appeal and got the troops to withdraw and release Gorbachev
- lead to significant developments that weakened the USSR
- Hardline communists launched a coup and took comunication points and detained Gorbachev
- Yeltsin
- Gorbachev was discredited and Yeltsin became the leading political figure until Gorbachev resigned in 1991
- Yeltsin banned the communist party from political activities. He also accepted the withdrawal of the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia from the USSR
- The USSR was finished
- Economic and Social Impacts
- High levels of crime, inequality, and alcoholism
- growth of nationalism and communist opposition
- sudden change into a capitalist state with control and welfare suddenly removed
- massive inflation wipes out savings
- decline in production and GDP halves
- welfare and subsidies slashed - intense poverty so no consumer market developed
- Weaknesses by 1995
- 1993 constitution gives Yeltsin greater powers
- brutal war against Chechen separatism indicate that old USSR attitudes remain
- Final end to Cold War as there is no longer the two opposing ideologies
- The Coup
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