c. What challenges did society face after the transition?
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian society faced tremendous instability. As you have seen, the 1991 hardline communist coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrated the deep-seated resistance to reform from the CPSU and accelerated the USSR’s disintegration. Political turmoil continued with the 1993 October Crisis, when President Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell the Russian parliament during a...