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Russia's Bitter Taste of Capitalism

Chaos after Russia's 1992 market reforms; the history of Semtex; 2001 A Space Odyssey.

On this week's programme, the chaos and hardship which hit Russia with the rapid market reforms in early 1992, weeks after the collapse of the USSR. Plus, the landmark science fiction film, 2001 A Space Odyssey; the history of Semtex and how the Unabomber was caught.

Photo: an old woman outside McDonald's in Moscow, circa 1992. Credit: Dina Newman archive.

50 minutes

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Sun 8 Apr 2018 23:06GMT

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