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LAST DAYS OF USSR - Coggle Diagram
LAST DAYS OF USSR
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INTERNAL COLLAPSE
CAUSES
attempted coup on 19-22 August 1991 led to Gorbachev's resignation as General Secretary on 24 August
Economic issues and dissolution of USSR led to protest as they believed Gorbachev should establish greater control over USSR
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Communist hardliners took control of govt, pronounced Gorbachev as ill while he was actually stuck in house arrest in Crimea
EVENTS
Commonwealth of Independent States set up - December 1991 - Belarus, Ukraine and Russia
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25 December - Gorbachev resigned as President, forced out by Yeltsin - blamed economic failures on reactionary groups and complexity of reform, really his own failures
BALTIC STATES
CAUSES
emergence of nationalism as USSR dissolved and Brezhnev Doctrine ended - prevalent in almost all USSR states
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EVENTS
Gorbachev used force in Baltic States to try to maintain support of conservatives in USSR who wanted to maintain Soviet Union
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Red Army troops entered Lithuania in Jan 1991, killed 12 people