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Revolutions of 1989
Internal
background
  • Era of Stagnation
  • Communism
  • Anti-communism
  • Criticism of communist party rule
  • Eastern Bloc
  • Eastern Bloc politics
  • Eastern Bloc media and propaganda
  • Emigration from the Eastern Bloc
  • KGB
  • Nomenklatura
  • Shortage economy
  • Totalitarianism
  • Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe
International
background
  • Active measures
  • Cold War
  • List of socialist states
  • People Power Revolution
  • Predictions of the collapse of the Soviet Union
  • Reagan Doctrine
  • Soviet Empire
  • Terrorism and the Soviet Union
  • Vatican Opposition
  • Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Reforms
  • Uskoreniye
  • Perestroika
    • Demokratizatsiya
    • Khozraschyot
    • 500 Days
    • New political thinking
    • Sinatra Doctrine
  • Glasnost
  • Chinese economic reform
  • Socialism with Chinese characteristics
  • Đổi Mới
Government
leaders
  • Ramiz Alia
  • Nicolae Ceaușescu
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Károly Grósz
  • Erich Honecker
  • Miloš Jakeš
  • Egon Krenz
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Slobodan Milošević
  • Mathieu Kérékou
  • Mengistu Haile Mariam
  • Ne Win
  • Denis Sassou Nguesso
  • Heng Samrin
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Zhao Ziyang
  • Todor Zhivkov
  • Siad Barre
Opposition
methods
  • Civil resistance
  • Human chains
  • Magnitizdat
  • Polish underground press
  • Political demonstration
  • Protests
  • Samizdat
  • Strike action
Opposition
leaders
  • Lech Wałęsa
  • Václav Havel
  • Alexander Dubček
  • Ion Iliescu
  • Liu Gang
  • Wu'erkaixi
  • Chai Ling
  • Wang Dan
  • Feng Congde
  • Tank Man
  • Joachim Gauck
  • Sali Berisha
  • Sanjaasürengiin Zorig
  • Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Viacheslav Chornovil
  • Vytautas Landsbergis
  • Zianon Pazniak
  • Zhelyu Zhelev
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Meles Zenawi
  • Isaias Afwerki
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Pope John Paul II
Opposition
movements
  • Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation
  • Charter 77
  • New Forum
  • Civic Forum
  • Democratic Party of Albania
  • Democratic Russia
  • Initiative for Peace and Human Rights
  • Sąjūdis
  • People's Movement of Ukraine
  • Solidarity
  • Popular Front of Latvia
  • Popular Front of Estonia
  • Public Against Violence
  • Belarusian Popular Front
  • Rastokhez
  • National League for Democracy
  • National Salvation Front
  • Union of Democratic Forces
  • Inter-regional Deputies Group
  • Alliance of Free Democrats
  • Hungarian Democratic Forum
Events
by location
Central and
Eastern Europe
  • Albania
  • Bulgaria
  • Czechoslovakia
  • East Germany
  • Hungary
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Soviet Union
  • Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Chechnya
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Moldova
  • Russia
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan
Elsewhere
  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Burma
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Congo-Brazzaville
  • Ethiopia
  • Mongolia
  • Mozambique
  • Somalia
  • South Yemen
Individual
events
  • Jeltoqsan
  • 1987–1989 Tibetan unrest
  • 1988 Polish strikes
  • Polish Round Table Agreement
  • April 9 tragedy
  • Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria
  • Hungarian Round Table Talks
  • Pan-European Picnic
  • Baltic Way
  • Monday Demonstrations
  • Alexanderplatz demonstration
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Fall of the inner German border
  • Malta Summit
  • Black January
  • 1990s post-Soviet aliyah
  • Helsinki Summit
  • Revolution on Granite
  • Reunification of Germany
  • January Events in Lithuania
  • January Events in Latvia
  • Transnistria War
  • 1991 protests in Belgrade
  • 1991 Belarusian strikes
  • Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact
  • August Coup
  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  • Tajikistani Civil War
  • Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
Later events
  • Colour revolution
  • Decommunization
  • Lustration
  • Democratization
  • Economic liberalization
  • Post-Soviet conflicts
  • Neo-Sovietism
  • Neo-Stalinism
  • Post-communism
  • Yugoslav Wars
  • Pink tide
Related
  • Human rights in the Soviet Union
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