Boris Yeltsin · Full chronicle and history

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Yeltsin implemented shock therapy in 1992 to liberalize prices; according to the video, inflation that year was about 2500%, residents' savings shrank dramatically, and the poverty rate rose sharply.

Hardliners in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union formed a State Emergency Committee to launch a coup; the KGB's elite Alpha Group refused orders to remove Yeltsin, and the coup collapsed within 3 days.