1989 in the Soviet Union
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The following lists events that happened during 1989 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- President of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev[1]
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev
- Chairman of the Supreme Soviet – Mikhail Gorbachev
- Vice President of the Soviet Union – Anatoly Lukyanov
- Premier of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Ryzhkov
Events
Whole Year: Revolutions of 1989
- January to 15 February – Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.[2]
- 6 February — Negotiations between the Polish government and the union ‘Solidarity’ opened.
- 27 March – 1989 Soviet Union legislative election: first contested elections in Soviet History.[3]
- 9 April – April 9 tragedy; a pro-independence demonstration in Tbilisi was put down by Soviet authorities, resulting in the deaths of 21 people.[4]
- 18 May – Lithuania declares sovereignty over all of its territory.
- 25 May – Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
- 23 August — Two million people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania join hands to form the Baltic Way in the Singing Revolution.
- 24 September – Lithuania declares 1940 annexation by the Soviet Union to be null and void.[5]
- 9 November — Soviet power in Eastern Europe collapses with the Fall of the Berlin Wall.[6]
- 28 November — Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces the end of its monopoly of power, in the Velvet Revolution.
- 7 December — Lithuanian parliament announces the end of the political monopoly of the Communist Party of Lithuania, in the Singing Revolution.
- 25 December —Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife and captured and executed, in the Romanian revolution.
References
- ^ "Soviet Leaders timeline". Timetoast timelines. 1922-12-30. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ "Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | Summary & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ "1989: Millions of Russians go to the polls". BBC News. 1989-03-27. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ "The April 9 tragedy (Tbilisi Massacre) – Global History Lab 2021". Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ "29. Soviet Union/Lithuania (1940-1991)". uca.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ "Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world". BBC News. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
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