Moscow, December 25th, 1991 (56 page)

Drozdov, Valery

Eastern Europe

Economic reform

and corruption

and five-hundred-day plan

and Gorbachev

and organized crime

and shock therapy

and Yeltsin

See also
Perestroika

Economic union

Esalen Institute

Esalen Soviet American Exchange Program

Estonia.
See also
Baltic republics

Falin, Valentin

Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB)

Five-hundred-day plan.
See also
Economic reform

Flags, switching of

Fokin, Vladimir

Food donations

Food shortages.
See also
Shortages

Free market economy.
See also
Economic reform

Friedman, Milton

FSB.
See
also Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti

Fuel shortages.
See also
Shortages

Fukuyama, Francis

Fyodorov, Nikolay

Gaidar, Yegor

and economic reform

and Belovezh agreement

Garrison, Jim

Gates, Robert

Genieva, Ekaterina

Georgia

Gerashchenko, Vitaly

Gerasimov, Gennady

Ghitis, Frida

Giblin, Viktor

Glasnost

Gorbachev, Mikhail

achievements of

attempts to discredit

and August coup

and Baltic republics

books by

and Bush

and Bush, and August coup

and Bush, friendship between

and Bush, and power loss

and Bush, praise by

and Bush, and resignation speech

and Bush, and United States as Cold War victor

childhood of

and Cold War

and Communist Party conference speech (1988)

and Communist Party leaders, criminality of

as Communist party member

and Congress of People’s Deputies

and conspiracies/coups (
see also
August coup)

and corruption

and demonstrations

and displaced staff, employment for

disrespect toward

documentary about

and economic reform

education of

at eighty years old

family of

farewell letters of

farewell reception for

final duties of

as first party secretary of Stavropol

and five-hundred-day plan (
see also
Economic reform)

and flags, switching of

and foundation (
see
Gorbachev Foundation)

as general secretary of Communist Party

as general secretary of Communist Party, resignation of

and glasnost

hardliners surrounding

and immunity from prosecution

and Israel

and KGB surveillance

and Koppel

at Kremlin

and Major

marriage of

as model for advertising agencies

money-raising power of

and new union treaty

and new world order

and Nobel Peace Prize

and nuclear suitcase

and nuclear weapons

and party privilege

and perestroika (
see also
Economic reform)

personal attire of

personality traits of

physical appearance of

as Politburo member

and politics, return to

and power, loss of

praise for

presidential reelection campaign (1996) of

and RAND-type company

and reform program(
see also
Economic reform)

residences of

residences of, eviction from

and resignation decree, signing of

resignation of

resignation speech of

and retirement

and retirement/compensation

sixtieth birthday of

and Soviet republics

sympathy and appreciation for

and three-state union

and transfer of power

and transfer of power, aftermath of

and transfer of power agreement

and Twenty-seventh Party Congress

in

and United States, visit to

wealth of

and wife, death of

and Yeltsin

and Yeltsin, alliance between

and Yeltsin, conflict between

and Yeltsin, difference between

and Yeltsin, and economic reform

and Yeltsin, expulsion from presidential office by

and Yeltsin, first meeting between

and Yeltsin, harassment by

and Yeltsin, hiring of

and Yeltsin, at Middle East conference

and Yeltsin, and power loss

and Yeltsin, and resignation from Politburo

and Yeltsin, and resignation speech

and Yeltsin, and Soviet republics

and Yeltsin, suicide attempt of

and Yeltsin, television interviews between

and Yeltsin, and town hall meeting

and Yeltsin, and transfer of power

Gorbachev Foundation (The International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies)

Gorbacheva, Raisa

admiration for

and August coup

and Bush

death of

disrespect toward

harassment of

health of

and KGB surveillance

marriage of

and news media

physical appearance of

political influence of

resentment toward

residences of

residences of, eviction from

and retirement

and “secret speech,”

and women, plight of

Grachev, Andrey

and Gorbachev, attempts to discredit

and Gorbachev, documentary about

and Gorbachev, farewell letters of

and Gorbachev, reception for,

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