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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone Series 1 Episodes

    Part One - 1985 to 1989

    1/7 Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But the oligarchs start to loot the system.

    Part Two - 1989 to 1991

    2/7 No potatoes in Moscow. The Soviet plan runs out of control. But McDonald’s opens.

    Part Three - 1991

    3/7 Hardliners try a coup. Power slips through their shaking hands. Money replaces ideology.

    Part Four - 1992 to 1994

    4/7 Russia goes through the mirror to a chaotic dream world where nothing is stable any more.

    Part Five - 1993 to 1996

    5/7 Russian society implodes. Yeltsin attacks parliament with tanks to save democracy.

    Part Six - 1994 to 1998

    6/7 Yeltsin believes a war in Chechnya will save him, while gangsters become heroes.

    Part Seven - 1995 to 1999

    7/7 Oligarchs choose Putin as their puppet. Russians turn against the 'curse of democracy'.