A decade in the life of the country is not so much. But there are periods in history when the time seems to be compressed, containing so many truly epoch-making events, which would be enough for the long-long years of calm existence.
The last decade of the twentieth century turned out to be so violent for Russia.
Perestroika, GKChP, the collapse of the USSR, economic reforms, free media, privatization, shooting from tanks at the White House, war in Chechnya, crime ramps, protest rallies, presidential elections, Budennovsk, explosions of houses in Dagestan, Volgodonsk and Moscow, withdrawal from the political arena of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin …
It was he who on December 31, 1999 put a symbolic point in a series of these events, announcing the voluntary reservation of the presidential powers and calling the name of his successor. Since then we have been living in another country.
“The 90s. The country. Life in a photo chronic” is a detailed documentary story about Russia of those years. On the pages of the book – hundreds of unique …
Author
Telny Lyudmila Olegovna
Translator
Harrison Christopher
Publisher
Sinbad, 2015
Genre
Design. Fashion. Photography, modern history of Russia (since 1991), photo albums
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