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Scholastic Update archives from December 1991
Moscow diary. (travel in the Soviet Union)
December 6, 1991... As a Journalist, I have traveled to more than 30 countries. I have covered wars and other shattering events and their aftermath. But nothing had prepared me for what I found in September, when I traveled to the Soviet Union for UPDATE.
A...
The Soviet dis-union? (fear and uncertainty in the new Soviet Union)(includes maps and related material)
December 6, 1991... Only hours after the collapse of last August's attempted coup, Anatoli Sobchak, mayor of the Russian city of Leningrad, clambered onto a makeshift speaker's platform in his city's downtown square. "The former Soviet Union has ceased to exist,"...
Breaking from the past. (Soviet Union)
December 6, 1991... For 74 years the Communist Party of the Soviet Union tenaciously controlled every aspect of Soviet life and every institution in Soviet society.
The party told journalists what to report, teachers what to teach, intellectuals what to...
The painful plunge. (Soviet transition to capitalism)
December 6, 1991... The mood of triumph was gone. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the man who two months earlier had courageously rallied the nation to resist the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, was now standing before the Congress of People's Deputies, the...
Glasnost's children. (teen-agers in Soviet Union)
December 6, 1991... Gorky Park is a green oasis in the center of Moscow, always crowded with Muscovites seeking an escape from their bleak and bustling city.
But on this sunny Thursday afternoon, you'd think Gorky Park was ruled by the "rollers." There they...
The empire strikes out. (changes in the Soviet Union)
December 6, 1991... On the morning of August 19, Americans awoke to the startling news that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had been deposed in what looked like a ruthlessly efficient coup. But the next 48 hours were even more astounding. The Soviet people,...
A nation is born. (Latvia faces the challenge of independence)
December 6, 1991... When the Soviets came, if you had any brains or property, they sent you to Siberia."
I was sitting in Latvia's Ministry of Education, and Gaida Firdzinia, an official there, was telling me, in a quiet, angry voice, about her grandfather's...