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Crisis atlas / SUN

Soviet Union

4 distinct crisis events in 4 episodes, 18752008, from the union of five primary chronologies.

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Banking crises
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Currency crises
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Sovereign debt crises
4
Crisis events
1875–2008
Span

Crisis timeline

Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.

  1. 2008
    Bankinggmd1 source
  2. 1995
    Bankinggmd1 source
  3. 1900
    Bankinggmd1 source
  4. 1875
    Bankinggmd1 source

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology

Macro context around each episode

Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.

1875

Banking

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1900

Banking

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1995

Banking

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2008

Banking

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Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology