History 1401E Lecture 16: Breakup of the Soviet Union
1 Apr 2016
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National elections in poland in june 1989: communists lose all but one of the districts in which seats were contested to representatives of the dissident solidarity movement. From august 1989 a largely non-communist government in poland. March 1989: hungarian central committee agrees to call free elections. Late summer and early fall of 1989: tens of thousands of east germans ee to the. West, either via hungary, which had taken down its border defences on the austrian border in august, or by taking refuge in west german embassies in eastern bloc countries and demanding to be permitted to leave. Mass demonstrations demanding more democracy take place in east german cities starting in september. November 10, 1989: communist ruler of bulgaria forced to resign. November 17-27, 1989: massive demonstrations and strikes force resignation of. December 25, 1989 romanian dictator nicolae ceausescu executed after ordering demonstrators killed. 1991 gorbachev orders soviet army to reestablish control in lithuania.
