Lives In Crisis: Russia 1991 - 2001

In August 1991, power in the USSR was seized by an "Emergency Committee" opposed to the sweeping changes that President Gorbachev had introduced to Soviet politics and society. Ordinary people resisted the coup and in doing so made a choice to press ahead with reform. Soon the USSR broke into separate states and Russia, under its modernising president, Boris Yeltsin, was left the largest state in a new Commonwealth of Independent States.

This book shows the impact of the changes and events of the next decade on the lives of people in Russia, including those in the cities, the remote countryside and the region of Chechnya.