Impact of Yelstin

Question 1

my conclusion in the role of Yeltsin

Answer 1

only really important in the actual dissolving of the USSR however not really that important Gorbachev political and economic reforms more important in my opinion. plus ticking time bomb of economic weakness

Question 2

what happened in august 1991

Answer 2

the august coup of 1991

Question 3

what happened and who lead coup

Answer 3

while on holiday in Crimea, Gorbachev was put under house arrest and emergency state control was taken over by vice president, head of KGB and defence minister.

announcing that Gorbachev was ill

Question 4

Key impact if the August Coup

Answer 4

Yeltsin stood against plotters enhancing his reputation and demanded Gorbachev be released

due to this enhance in position Yeltsin then imposed a series of measures that helped end soviet union e.g. market reforms

monopoly of party legally ended (although ended already by Gorbachev)

November communist party banned from soviet union within Russia

Yeltsin undermined the new union treaty than organised commonwealth of independent states which ended the soviet union.