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The History Hour: The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

31/12/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991

Key players in the fall of the USSR, including the signatories to the dissolution treaty, recall the momentous events of December 1991.

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

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