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FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev

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Series
FRONTLINE
Program
Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev
Program Number

912

Series Description

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.

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.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres
Documentary
Citation
Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev,” GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_09B0A47F4FA2482580120EDAFB179471.
MLA: “FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev.” GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_09B0A47F4FA2482580120EDAFB179471>.
APA: FRONTLINE; Guns, Tanks and Gorbachev. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_09B0A47F4FA2482580120EDAFB179471
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