The Ussr In 1991

A Record Of Events

Vera Tolz, Melanie Newton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000306866
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This last volume in the annual series chronicles the developments that led up to the abortive August coup, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The book is arranged as a day-by-day chronology with boldface headlines identifying individual topics. Among the highlights are analyses of the crackdown in the Baltic republics, the miners' strikes, and the ongoing ethnic warfare in the Transcaucasus; the referendum on the future of the USSR and the prolonged negotiations between the center and the republics over the Union treaty; the emergence of Russia as an alternative center of power; and the banning of the Soviet Communist Party. The volume also documents in depth the failed coup and the political realignment that followed, the disastrous state of the economy, and the discussion of potential future cooperation among the newly independent republics.

Subject Index

Abkhazia, 258, 475, 587

Abortion, 438

Academy of Sciences,

USSR, 692

Russian, 879

Accidents

automobile, 90, 859-860

Chernobyl' fire, 731. See also Chernobyl' nuclear accident

helicopter crash in Nagorno-Karabakh, 837

nuclear submarine, 402, 761

Donbass mining, 440

industrial, 388

Adzharia, 288, 425

Aeroflot, 20-21, 901

Afghanistan

accidental bombing by, 385

arms supplies to, 649-650

conflict in, 676, 695, 878

and damage reparations from USSR, 687

natural gas from, 7

and recognition of CIS republics, 914

and Soviet aid, 28, 220

and Soviet POWs, 136

See also Mujahidin

AFL-CIO, 152, 153, 172

Agriculture

grain harvest, 253, 385, 544, 776-777

harvest failure in Kazakhstan, 831

and Moldavia, 515

and reform, 197, 703, 829--330, 836. See also Land reform

state of, 109, 245

and Tajikistan, 502

terms of trade for farmers, 413, 521, 536-537

See also Food

Agzybirlik," 91-92, 573

Aid

appeals for Western, 326, 391-392, 678, 690, 756-757, 824

and EBRD, 189

and EC, 89, 297-298, 358, 388, 392, 701, 719

environmental, 869

and G-7, 469, 470, 474, 734

from Germany, 451

and Harvard pian, 402-403, 430

and Japan, 271, 456-457, 722-723, 750-751

mishandled and stolen shipments, 36

for Nagorno-Karabakh, 252

from RSFSR, 486, 773

from Saudi Arabia, 725

from South Korea, 51

Soviet foreign, 28, 136, 220

from United Arab Emirates, 727-728

and US, 32-33, 367, 421, 509, 724-725, 773

US, to Baltic republics, 109-110, 654, 774-775...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• The Month of January
• The Month of February
• The Month of March
• The Month of April
• The Month of May
• The Month of June
• The Month of July
• The Month of August
• The Month of September
• The Month of October
• The Month of November
• The Month of December
• Name Index
• Subject Index