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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZoneSeries 1Episodes

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  1. Part Seven - 1995 to 1999

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

  2. Part Six - 1994 to 1998

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

  3. Part Five - 1993 to 1996

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

  4. Part Four - 1992 to 1994

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

  5. Part Three - 1991

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

  6. Part Two - 1989 to 1991

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

  7. Part One - 1985 to 1989

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