The Unfinished Time: Russia in the 90s
Season 1Episode 1
Part I: Awakening
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Episode Overview
The new General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Mikhail Gorbachev, is trying to reform the Soviet regime - and starts a chain reaction of events that he quickly loses control over. The democratic opposition is led by Boris Yeltsin, and soon Gorbachev begins to see him as a threat.