Collapse of the USSR 1991: HSC Modern History Cold War

A focused answer to the HSC Modern History Cold War dot point on the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the rise of nationalism in the Baltics, Russia, and Ukraine, the Novo-Ogaryovo process, the August 1991 coup attempt against Gorbachev, the rise of Boris Yeltsin, the Belavezha Accords (8 December 1991), and the formal end of the USSR on 25 December 1991.