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54 results found for '"Communist parties"' in Keywords.
Communist rule in USSR ends as Gorbachev resigns (1991)
- Genre
- News bulletin; News report; Speech
IRN 7.00am news bulletin (25/08/91) read by Philip Cottrell, which focuses on the end of communist rule in the Soviet Union after more than seven decades. Mikhail Gorbachev has resigned as party leader and...
Mikhail Gorbachev coup video (1991)
- Genre
- Speech
Recording from a video made by Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, which he made in secret while under house arrest during the abortive coup in the USSR. It was smuggled out of his holiday home in the Crimea...
Gorbachev after failed coup (1991)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech (via an interpreter) by President Mikhail Gorbachev during an emergency session of the Soviet Parliament following the abortive coup that attempted his overthrow. He’s promising to push ahead at...
Anatoly Lukyanov denies treachery in coup attempt (1991)
- Genre
- Speech
Statement (translated via an interpreter) by the disgraced former Speaker of the Soviet parliament, Anatoly Lukyanov, defending his role in the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev. He denies that...
Hurd on Soviet collapse (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, prior to a meeting of fellow European ministers in Brussels today, where he’ll argue that the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia must be...
Mikhail Gorbachev on Soviet split (1991)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech (via an interpreter) by Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to the Soviet Parliament where he says he’ll resign as President if the USSR breaks apart. Follows 8 of the 15 republics opting out of the...
US reaction to Soviet collapse (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Paul Woodley reports from the United States on reaction to the news the Soviet Communist Party which has dominated the USSR for seven decades, is virtually dead as a political force. Includes excerpts from a...
David Steel on Soviet collapse (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Russell interviews Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, Sir David Steel, during a visit to the USSR, for talks with parties in opposition to the Communist Party. Steel talks about the...
British Communist Party changes (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Mike Carlton interviews British Communist Party General Secretary, Nina Temple, about the decision to abandon the Party’s Marxist constitution (and prior to a vote on changing the Party’s name) at the...
Soviet political changes as communism ends (1991)
- Genre
- News report
Sue Jameson reports from Moscow for LBC Newstalk 97.3 on continued political change in the Soviet Union including the end of the Communist Party following its involvement in the recent coup and arrest of the...