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Curriculum Bites The Fall of the USSR Clips

  1. Lithuania's struggle for independence

    Duration: 05:22

  2. Gorbachev's impact on the fall of the USSR

    Duration: 02:34

  3. The relationship between the USA and the USSR

    Duration: 04:08

  4. The fall of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin

    Duration: 04:50

  5. The terror of the KGB

    Duration: 01:22

  6. Glasnost and perestroika

    Duration: 05:22

  7. Control of opinion in the USSR

    Duration: 01:13

  8. The suppression of democracy in Eastern Europe

    Duration: 01:40

  9. The failure of the communist coup in Russia in 1991

    Duration: 05:35

  10. How economic problems contributed to the end of the Soviet Union

    Duration: 04:15

  11. The rise of Boris Yeltsin

    Duration: 05:30

  12. The fall of communism in Eastern Europe

    Duration: 02:01

  13. The Berlin Wall and the fall of East German communism

    Duration: 04:02

  14. Solidarity and the fall of communism in Poland

    Duration: 06:11

  15. The Soviet Union re-engages with the world

    Duration: 02:49

  16. The fall of the Berlin Wall

    Duration: 03:03