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Back up to: Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

1. Part Seven - 1995 to 1999

   7/7 Oligarchs choose Putin as their puppet. Russians turn against the 'curse of democracy'.
2. Part Six - 1994 to 1998

   6/7 Yeltsin believes a war in Chechnya will save him, while gangsters become heroes.
3. Part Five - 1993 to 1996

   5/7 Russian society implodes. Yeltsin attacks parliament with tanks to save democracy.
4. Part Four - 1992 to 1994

   4/7 Russia goes through the mirror to a chaotic dream world where nothing is stable any more.
5. Part Three - 1991

   3/7 Hardliners try a coup. Power slips through their shaking hands. Money replaces ideology.
6. Part Two - 1989 to 1991

   2/7 No potatoes in Moscow. The Soviet plan runs out of control. But McDonald鈥檚 opens.
7. Part One - 1985 to 1989

   1/7 Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But the oligarchs start to loot the system.