Democratic revolutions

events leading up to the end of Soviet rule in the Baltic nations

protests against Prime Minister Sersch Sargsyan and the government in Armenia in April and May 2018

popular uprising in South Korea in April 1960 by labor and student groups, precipitated by the killing of a high school student by a tear-gas shell in March; led to the resignation of the president S. Rhee and the transition to the Second Republic

nationwide democracy movement in South Korea that generated mass protests from June 10 to June 29, 1987

movement against the direct rule of King Gyanendra

1989–1991 process by which Ukraine became independent from the Soviet Union

revolution in which a democracy is instituted