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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZoneEpisodes

    Part One - 1985 to 1989Series 1

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

    Part Two - 1989 to 1991Series 1

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

    Part Three - 1991Series 1

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

    Part Four - 1992 to 1994Series 1

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

    Part Five - 1993 to 1996Series 1

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

    Part Six - 1994 to 1998Series 1

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

    Part Seven - 1995 to 1999Series 1

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