Rté - Death Of An Empire
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 2:05:47
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Synopsis
Seamus Martin explores the twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He also explores what made the Soviet Union and what led to its collapse and what its like inside modern Russia today.
Episodes
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![Episode 5 - Putins era (2000 to today)]()
Episode 5 - Putin's era (2000 to today)
08/03/2012 Duration: 25minThe last episode in the series ‘Death of an Empire’ looks at modern Russia under Vladimir Putin.
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![Episode 4 - Yeltsins era and economic collapse (1990s)]()
Episode 4 - Yeltsin's era and economic collapse (1990s)
08/03/2012 Duration: 25minEpisode four of ‘Death of an Empire’ focuses on the age of Boris Yeltsin and the economic collapse of the new Russian Federation.
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![Episode 3 - the August Coup 1991 : the failed coup, the fall of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin]()
Episode 3 - the August Coup 1991 : the failed coup, the fall of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin
08/03/2012 Duration: 25minEpisode three explores the August 1991 Coup attempt and the final months of the Soviet Union.
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![Episode 2 - Gorbachev and Reform (1980’s)]()
Episode 2 - Gorbachev and Reform (1980’s)
08/03/2012 Duration: 25minEpisode two examines Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s age of reform in the 1980s and the first cracks in the Soviet State as the Baltic States bid for independence.
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![Episode 1 - Becoming Soviet (1940s -1970s)]()
Episode 1 - Becoming Soviet (1940s -1970s)
08/03/2012 Duration: 25minEpisode one traces the communist super-state built by Joseph Stalin which once covered one sixth of the planet and crossed eleven time zones.
