Moscow, December 25, 1991

and Gorbachev, sympathy and appreciation for

See also News media

Nixon, Richard

Nobel Peace Prize

Novo-Ogarevo meeting. See also New union treaty

Nuclear alert

Nuclear button

Nuclear suitcase

and August coup

and transfer of power

and Yeltsin

Nuclear weapons

and transfer of power

Oil industry

Organized crime

Palazchenko, Pavel

and Gorbachev, consiracy against

and nuclear suitcase

Party privilege. See also Corruption

Pateychuk, Evgeniya

Pavlov, Valentin

and August coup

Pavlovna, Lyudmila

Perestroika. See also Economic Reform

Pérez de Cuéllar y de la Guerra, Javier

Pestov, Valery

Petrushenko, Nikolay

Plekhanov, Yury

Politburo

and Yeltsin, resignation from

Polozkov, Ivan

Poltoranin, Mikhail

and “secret speech,”

Polyakov, Vladimir

Popov, Gavriil

Powell, Colin

Power, transfer of. See Transfer of power

Pozner, Vladimir

Price liberalization. See also Economic reform

Privatization. See also Economic reform

Privilege. See Party privilege

Prokofyev, Yury

Pugo, Boris

Pushkin, Alexander

Putin, Vladimir

and August coup

Quayle, Dan

Rasputin, Valentin

Reagan, Nancy

Reagan, Ronald

Red Square

Redkoborody Vladimir

Reed, John

Rice, Condoleezza

Roh Tae-woo

Russia

and name change

present-day

and Ukraine

and Union Treaty of

and United States

Russian Federation

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Russian White House

storming of

Rutskoy Alexander

and economic reform

Ryabov, Yakov

Ryzhkov, Nikolay

Safire, William

Sakharov, Andrey

Samarin, Vladimir

Scowcroft, Brent

Secret information department

“Secret speech” of Yeltsin

Shakhnazarov, Georgy

Shakhrai, Sergey

Shamir, Yitzhak

Shaposhnikov, Yevgeny

and transfer of power

Shatalin, Stanislav

Shchelokov, Nikolay

Shenin, Oleg

Shevardnadze, Eduard

and August coup

on death list

ejection of

eviction of, from foreign ministry

and Gorbachev, attempts to discredit

resignation of

and transfer of power

and Yeltsin, resignation of, from Politburo

Shidlovsky Eduard

Shipman, Claire. See also News media

Shock therapy. See also Economic reform

Shortages

Shushkevich, Stanislau

and Belovezh Agreement

Silayev, Ivan

Sobchak, Anatoly

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Somov, Yury

Soviet ambassadors

Soviet embassies

Soviet republics

and central authority, rejection of

and commonwealth (see Commonwealth of Independent States)

and confederative union state

democratic elections in

and economic union

fate of

and military intervention

and nuclear strike

and sovereignty, declaration of

and union state vs. union of states

and Union Treaty of

and union treaty (see New union treaty)

See also Baltic republics; Commonwealth of Independent States; individual republics

Soviet Union

birth of

collapse of

collapse of, moment of

dissolution of

as totalitarian society

Stalin, Josef

at Kremlin

legacy of

Stalin Archives (aka Archives of the General Secretary)

State property, transfer of

State subsidies. See also Economic reform

Strategic Rocket Forces

Strauss, Robert

Sukhanov, Lev

Sununu, John

Supreme Soviet, Russian

Supreme Soviet, USSR

final session of

Surveillance. See KGB

Suslov, Mikhail

Table of Ranks

Television. See also ABC; CNN; News media

Thatcher, Margaret

Thieves World (Vorovskoy Mir )

Totalitarianism

Transfer of power

aftermath of

CNN

and criminality, secret documents of

and flags, switching of

and military

and nuclear suitcase

and nuclear weapons

terms of

Turner, Ted. See also News media

Ukraine

and nuclear strike

and Russia

UN General Assembly

UN Security Council

Union Treaty of

See also New union treaty

United States

and August coup

as Cold War victor

and food donations

and Gorbachev

and Russia

and Yeltsin

USSR State Bank

Varennikov, Valentin

Vlasov, Alexander

Vodka, shortage of. See also Shortages

Vorontsov, Yury

Vorovskoy Mir (Thieves World)

Weapons arsenal. See also Nuclear weapons

Worner, Manfred

Yakovlev, Alexander

and August coup

and Gorbachev, attempts to discredit

and Gorbachev, resignation speech of

resignation of

and Stalin Archives

and transfer of power

Yakovlev, Yegor

and Gorbachev documentary

and Yeltsin, newspaper interview by

Yanayev, Gennady

and August coup

Yaroshenko, Viktor

Yavlinsky, Grigory

Yazov, Dmitry

and August coup

Yeltsin, Boris

achievements of

and alcoholism

and August coup

and Baker

and Baltic republics

and bodyguards/militia men

books by

and Bush

and Bush, and August coup

and Bush, praise by

and Bush (Barbara)

and capitalism

as chairman of Russian parliament

and Chechnya

childhood of

and Clinton

and Commonwealth of Independent States, creation of

and Communist Party

and Communist Party conference speech (1988)

and Congress of People’s Deputies

as Congress of People’s Deputies candidate

and constitution, change in

as construction department supervisor

and corruption

death of

and demonstrations

and disloyalty, suspicions of

and economic reform

education of

as engineer

family of

as first deputy chairman of state committee for construction

as first secretary of Moscow

as first secretary of Moscow, dismissal of

as first secretary of Sverdlovsk

and glasnost

and Gorbachev

and Gorbachev, alliance between

and Gorbachev, and economic reform

and Gorbachev, conflict between

and Gorbachev, difference between