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  1. Communist rule in USSR ends as Gorbachev resigns (1991)

    Genre
    News bulletin; News report; Speech

    IRN 7.00am news bulletin (25/08/91) read by Philip Cottrell, which focuses on the end of communist rule in the Soviet Union after more than seven decades. Mikhail Gorbachev has resigned as party leader and...

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  2. Hurd on Soviet collapse (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, prior to a meeting of fellow European ministers in Brussels today, where he’ll argue that the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia must be...

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  3. Mikhail Gorbachev on Soviet split (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    Speech (via an interpreter) by Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to the Soviet Parliament where he says he’ll resign as President if the USSR breaks apart. Follows 8 of the 15 republics opting out of the...

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  4. US reaction to Soviet collapse (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Paul Woodley reports from the United States on reaction to the news the Soviet Communist Party which has dominated the USSR for seven decades, is virtually dead as a political force. Includes excerpts from a...

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  5. David Steel on Soviet collapse (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Peter Russell interviews Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, Sir David Steel, during a visit to the USSR, for talks with parties in opposition to the Communist Party. Steel talks about the...

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  6. Albania famine predicted by WHO (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Catherine Field reports from Tirana in Albania, one of the last communist regimes in Europe, where problems are increasing as thousands of citizens continue to try and flee the country while the new elected...

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  7. Major in Washington for talks with Bush (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Mary Tillotson interviews John Major for the CNN network, during a visit by the UK Prime Minister to Washington DC for talks with US President George H. W. Bush about the implications following the break-up...

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  8. Major on demise of communism (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Nicky Broyd interviews UK Prime Minister John Major at his home in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire on the collapse of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, the future for the Soviet Union states and Soviet...

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  9. Bush on Soviet collapse (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Paul Woodley reports from the United States on reaction to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the unique position of the US as the last remaining superpower. President George H. W. Bush expresses his views...

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  10. British communist on Soviet failed coup (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Tony Chater, Editor of the Communist Party of Great Britain newspaper The Morning Star on the future of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union following the failed coup and what the party...

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