SOVIET UNION - GORBACHEV RESIGNS FROM COMMUNIST PARTY

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1991
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Year
1991
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8396
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Audio
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Duration
00:15:30
Broadcast Date
26 Aug 1991
Credits
RNZ Collection
Attard, Monica
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
Hill, Kim, 1955-
JACKSON, George
KORTUNOV, Andre
Robinson, Geoff
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, 1931-2007

A report that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has resigned as general
secretary of the Communist Party.
The report contains comments from Soviet citizens.
Kim Hill i/v BBC Moscow correspondent Monica Attard about the role of
Russian president Boris Yeltsin in the post coup Soviet Union.
Geoff Robinson i/v Andre Kortunov, a political scientist from Moscow.
Geoff Robinson i/v New Zealand Socialist Unity Party president, George
Jackson, about the local reaction to the events in the Soviet Union.