Dissolution of the Soviet Union

regional organisation whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics

process leading to the late-1991 breakup of the USSR

Perestroika ( ; ) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his ("transparency") policy reform. literally means "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the political economy of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation.

Glasnost ( ; , ) is a concept relating to openness and transparency. It has several general and specific meanings, including a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information and the inadmissibility of hushing up problems. In Russian, the word glasnost has long been used to mean 'openness' and 'transparency'. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union within the framework of perestroika, and the word came to be used in English in the latter meaning.

states established following the disestablishment of the Soviet Union

1989 peaceful demonstration in the form of a human chain

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

agreement that declared dissolution of the USSR by its founder states (denunciation of 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the CIS

Ukrainian secession from the USSR

independence referendum

referendum regarding the dissolution of the Soviet Union

American strategy until the end of the Cold War

Government organization in USSR in 1991

a late period in the history of the U.S.S.R.

founding declarations and principles of the Commonwealth of Independent States

The Sąjūdis (, ), initially known as the Reform Movement of Lithuania (), is a political organisation which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was established on 3 June 1988 as the first opposition party in Soviet Lithuania, and was led by Vytautas Landsbergis. Its goal was to seek the return of independent status for Lithuania.

election

draft treaty of 1991

independence referendum in Azerbaijan

1991 Moldovan legal document

retrospective fondness for USSR

aspect of history

act declaring the independence of Lithuania from the USSR

non-violent protest event in Latvia in 1991

political document

Referendum in the former Soviet Union

event in 1990 by demonstrators who advocated for the unification of Romania and Moldova

Estonian political party

an agreement by Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan that nuclear weapons of the former Soviet Union on the soil of those states would be destroyed or transferred to the control of Russia

legislative election in the Soviet Union

referendum in Armenia, Soviet Union

series of sovereignty declarations by Soviet Union constituents, late 1980s — early 1990s

1991 referendum

Final Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

student protest in Ukraine

1991 referendum in Soviet Lithuania on independence from the USSR

Declaration which restored the independent Republic of Latvia in 1990

1988–1991 mass movement in Armenia

referendum on the transformation of Tatarstan into a sovereign state

1991 speech by George H. W. Bush in Ukraine

Independence referendum in the Turkmen SSR

1990 resolution by the Parliament of Ukraine declaring sovereignty

political party

1992 film by Wayne Isham

August 1991 event where Estonia once again became independent

limited process of the removal of communist symbols

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

Estonian political party (1990–1991)

political slogan, economic benefit of a decrease in defense spending

1991 referendum in Ukraine, Soviet Union

dissident organization in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

predictions

1991 strikes and protests in Belarus, Soviet Union

1987 political slogan from Mikhail Gorbachev

legal parliamentary opposition in the Soviet Union