On December 8, the press center of the Izvestia MIC is hosting a round table on the topic: “The collapse of the USSR: 30 years later.”
How did the collapse of the USSR affect modern Russia and the world? Was the death of the USSR inevitable? How correctly are the events of 1991 in Russia interpreted? What was the real political agenda for the summer-December 1991? What is the role of the then government in the collapse of the state?
Participants:
- Sergey Zhuravlev, Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
- Pavel Danilin, Director of the Center for Political Analysis and Social Research;
- Vladimir Rudakov, editor-in-chief of the “Historian” magazine (online);
- Evgeny Spitsyn, historian, publicist, author of textbooks and lecture courses on the history of Russia (online).
30 years ago, on December 8, 1991, the heads of the three republics, founders of the USSR – Belarus, Russia and Ukraine – in Belovezhskaya Pushcha stated that the USSR was ceasing to exist, and signed an Agreement on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). According to B.N. Yeltsin, the Belovezhsky agreement did not dissolve the USSR, but only stated its actual disintegration by that time.
Source: IZ
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