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FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev
02/13/1991
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev
- Program Number
912
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
Correspondent Hedrick Smith looks at the causes of recent violence in the USSR and explores the ramifications for future US-Soviet relations. In the Baltic nations of Latvia and Lithuania, Soviet troops are gunning down protesters while the world's attention is focused on the Persian Gulf War. The end of the Gorbachev era may be at hand. The consequences for the United States, for the people of the Soviet Union, and for the fragile anti-Iraq alliance are potentially enormous. Contains footage of the unrest in Riga, Latvia and Vilnius, Lithuania which resulted in deaths of protesters. Also contains coverage of street fighting in Georgia, as yet unreported in the Western press -- and US foreign policy during these tumultuous months.
- Duration
00:66:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- News
- Public Affairs
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev,” 02/13/1991, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed July 27, 2017, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B6CEE75011A34FD6B444A0D7478E92B6.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev.” 02/13/1991. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. July 27, 2017. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B6CEE75011A34FD6B444A0D7478E92B6>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B6CEE75011A34FD6B444A0D7478E92B6