Summary of Evidence On December 25th of 1991, the Soviet Union officially fell apart under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, a newly elected President after a fail coup d'etat, after which Gorbachev resigned. ... Government policies at the time seemed to focus upon finding a quick solution to a crisis, such as quantitative easing and privatization, that had roots deeply embedded in political mishaps for previous decades. ...

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