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(The links provided take you to the starting-point of the relevant discussion. It is important that you read each article to the end.)
 
 
Internal pressures for Gorbachev’s economic reforms:
 
http://www.allrussias.com/soviet_russia/economy_6.asp
http://www.allrussias.com/soviet_russia/brezh_3.asp
http://www.allrussias.com/soviet_russia/perestroika_1.asp
 
 
The effects of Glasnost:
 
http://allrussias.com/soviet_russia/politreform_1.asp
 
 
Gorbachev as a political leader:
 
http://allrussias.com/soviet_russia/collapse_5.asp
 
 
The government-sponsored privatisation and the rise of “oligarchic corporatism”: 
 
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/privatiz_1.asp
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/yeltsin_8.asp
 
 
Main factors impeding a successful capitalist transformation in the 1990s:
 
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/handicap_1.asp
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/survival_1.asp
                                       
 
Main achievements of Yeltsin’s period:
 
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/yeltsin_verdict_1.asp
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/yeltsin_1.asp
         
 
Strengths and weaknesses of Russia as a federation:
         
 http://www.allrussias.com/rf/fed_1.asp
 http://www.allrussias.com/rf/chechnya_1.asp
 
 
Putin’s efforts to recentralise political authority:
 
 http://www.allrussias.com/rf/fed_6.asp
 http://www.allrussias.com/rf/oligarch_1.asp
 http://www.allrussias.com/rf/putinism_01.asp
 
 
Medvedev’s analysis of Russia’s current problems and priorities:
 
http://www.allrussias.com/rf/go-russia_01.asp
 
   

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