Conor O'Clery - Moscow, December 25, 1991

and Gorbachev resignation speech

and nuclear suitcase, handover of

and Belovezh agreement

and transfer of power

and Yeltsin, humiliation of

Grachev, Pavel

Grishin, Viktor

Gusenkov, Vitaly

Honecker, Erich

Hurd, Douglas

Hurst, Steve. See also News media

Ilyushin, Viktor

International charity

The International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies. See Gorbachev Foundation

Ioganson, Boris

Iron Curtain

Isakov, Vladimir

Israel

Jaruzelski, Wojciech

Johns Hopkins University

Johnson, Tom

and Gorbachev, resignation speech of

and Mont Blanc pen

and resignation decree, signing of

See also News Media

Joint Measures Regarding Nuclear Arms

Kaplan, Rick. See also News media

Kazakhstan

Kazannik, Alexey

Kerbel, Lev

Kerensky, Alexander

KGB

disbanding of

surveillance

Khasbulatov, Ruslan

Khodzhaev, Usman

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kohl, Helmut

Kohl, Hannelore

Komplektov, Viktor

Koppel, Ted

and Gorbachev, documentary about

and nuclear suitcase, handover of

See also News media

Korotich, Vitaly

Korzhakov, Alexander

and August coup

and Gorbacheva, harassment of

and Belovezh agreement

and Yeltsin, suicide attempt of

Kozyrev, Andrey

Kravchenko, Leonid

Kravchuk, Leonid

and Belovezh agreement

Kremlin

Kruchina, Nikolay

Kryuchkov, Vladimir

and August coup

Kunayev, Dinmukhamed

Kuznetsov, Alexander

Latvia. See also Baltic republics

Leaders

criminality of

spouses of

Lebed, Alexander

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Leontiyev, Alexander

Ligachev, Yegor

and Yeltsin

and Yeltsin, resignation of, from Politburo

Lithuania. See also Baltic republics

Liu Heung Shing

Loory, Stuart. See also News media

Lukashenko, Alexander

Lukyanov, Anatoly

Luzhkov, Yury

Major, John

Matlock, Jack

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Media. See News media

Medunov, Sergey

Medvedev, Dmitry

Mikhailovich, Tsar Alexey

Molotov

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Money shortages. See also Shortages

Murashev, Arkady

Nationalism

NATO

Nazarbayev, Nursultan

Nechayev, Andrey

Nechayev, Dmitry

Nenashev, Mikhail

New union treaty

and Gorbachev

and KGB surveillance

and Novo-Ogarevo meeting

and signing ceremony

and tax issue

See also Belovezh agreement

News media

and August coup

censorship of

and flags, switching of

and Gorbacheva

and nuclear suitcase, handover of

and Yeltsin, as president

See also ABC; CNN; Hurst; Johnson; Kaplan; Koppel; Loory; Newspapers; Shipman; Television; Turner

Newspapers

ban on foreign

censorship of

and Gorbachev, attempts to discredit

and Gorbachev, farewell reception for

and Gorbachev, in retirement, interview with

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