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Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

All this week as countries around the world consider how to rebuild their economies after COVID-19.

Witness history is looking back at previous attempts to reimagine society in the wake of a crisis.

In 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new Russian government turned the country's economy from state-controlled socialism to free market capitalism almost overnight, and it led to widespread hardship.

In 2018, Dina Newman spoke to Andre Nichayev, a former Russian economy minister and the architect

of this policy of shock therapy. The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 25, 1991,

when the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gurbachov resigned from his post.

Due to the situation which has evolved as a result of the

formation of the Commonwealth of independent states I hereby discontinue my

activities at the post of President of the USSR.

Mikhail Gurbachov was replaced by Boris Yeltsin as Russia's President.

Yeltsin appointed the government of young and ambitious academics whose job was to transform Russia into a market economy.

This was

unbridled by the most ambitious vision.

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