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  INDEX

  ABC. See also News media

  Afanasyev, Viktor

  Afanasyev, Yury

  Afghanistan

  Akhromeyev, Sergey

  Alimzhanov, Anuarbek

  Alksnis, Viktor

  Alma-Ata agreements. See also Commonwealth of Independent States

  Andropov, Yury

  Archives of the General Secretary. See Stalin Archives

  Arledge, Roone

  August coup

  aftermath of

  and conspiracy

  and conspirators, fate of

  failure of

  media coverage of

  and nuclear suitcase

  Aushev, Ruslan

  Bakatin, Vadim

  Baker, James

  and August coup

  and Yeltsin

  Baklanov, Oleg

  Baltic republics. See also Soviet republics

  BBC. See also News media

  Belarus. See also Three-state union

  Belovezh agreementSee also Commonwealth of Independent States

  Belyaev, Igor

  Belyakov, Yury

  Bessmertnykh, Alexander

  Boldin, Valery

  and August coup

  and Gorbachev, attempts to discredit

  and Stalin Archives

  and Yeltsin, resignation of, from Politburo

  Bonner, Yelena

  Borodin, Leonid

  Bovin, Alexander

  Braithwaite, Rodric

  Brakov, Yury

  Brezhnev, Galina

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Burbulis, Gennady

  and Belovezh agreement

  Burlatsky Fyodor

  Bush, Barbara

  Bush, George H. W.

  and August coup

  and “Chicken Kiev” speech

  and Gorbachev

  and Gorbachev, and August coup

  and Gorbachev, friendship between

  and Gorbachev, power loss of

  and Gorbachev, praise for

  and Gorbachev, resignation speech of

  and Gorbachev, and United States as Cold War victor

  and Gorbacheva

  in Moscow

  and nuclear weapons

  and Soviet Union, collapse of

  and three-state union

  and Ukraine

  and United States as Cold War victor

  and Yeltsin

  and Yeltsin, and August coup

  and Yeltsin, praise for

  Castro, Fidel

  Caudill, Charlie

  and nuclear suitcase, handover of

 
and Yeltsin, interview with

  Ceauşescu, Nicolae

  Censorship

  Chebrikov, Viktor

  Chechnya

  Cheney Dick

  Chernenko, Konstantin

  Chernomyrdin, Viktor

  Chernyaev, Anatoly

  and mistress

  and August coup

  and Gorbachev, attempts to discredit

  and Gorbachev, disrespect toward

  and Gorbachev, power loss of

  and Gorbachev, resignation speech of

  and Gorbachev, wealth of

  and nuclear suitcase, handover of

  and perestroika

  and RAND-type company

  and three-state union

  and Yeltsin, resignation of, from Politburo

  China

  Chubais, Anatoly

  CIS. See Commonwealth of Independent States

  Clinton, Bill

  CNN

  and August coup

  and Gorbachev, resignation speech of

  and nuclear suitcase, handover of

  and transfer of power

  and Yeltsin, interview with

  See also News media

  Cold War

  Colonels-guardians, of nuclear suitcase. See also Nuclear suitcase

  Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

  creation of

  members of

  See also Alma-Ata agreements; Belovezh agreement; Three-state union

  Communist Party of the Soviet Union

  criminality by leaders of

  conference speech (1988)

  Communist Party of Russia

  Communist regimes, ousting of

  Confederative union state

  Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation.

  Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

  Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR

  Corruption

  and economic reform

  See also Party privilege

  Cuenca, José

  Currency controls

  Dacha, presidential

  De Gaulle, Charles

  Declaration of Sovereignty of the RSFSR

  Demonstrations

  Diplomats

  Doomsday Clock

  Drozdov, Valery

  Eastern Europe

  Economic reform

  and corruption

  and five-hundred-day plan

 

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