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    Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most...
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    resistance Revolutions of 1989 Monday demonstrations in East Germany Armenian Velvet Revolution Georgian Rose Revolution Ukrainian Orange Revolution Civilian-based...
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    colour revolutions (sometimes coloured revolutions) were a series of often non-violent protests and accompanying (attempted or successful) changes of government...
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    Romanian revolution (Romanian: Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that...
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    The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout...
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  • bloody Romanian Revolution), beginning with the victory of Solidarity in that year's Polish legislative elections. The Revolutions of 1989 provided the template...
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  • or violence." Revolutions have occurred throughout human history and varied in their methods, durations and outcomes. Some revolutions started with peasant...
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    republican revolutions that swept through Europe. The French Revolution of 1848 led to the creation of the French Second Republic. The Revolutions of 1848 in...
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    formal establishment of the People's Movement of Ukraine on 1 July 1989 to the formalisation of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine via referendum...
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    year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade. 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which...
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    Pact. After the peak of Marxism–Leninism, when many communist states were established, the Revolutions of 1989 brought down most of the communist states;...
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    marked the major conclusion of the Revolutions of 1989 and the end of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Cold War, several of the former Soviet republics...
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  • system since it gained independence following the Revolutions of 1989. Currently, the political landscape of Hungary is dominated by the Fidesz – Hungarian...
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    Western world as part of the Revolutions of 1989. The peaceful revolution marks the end of the ruling by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the...
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    multi-party democracy was re-established in 1990, coinciding with the Revolutions of 1989. The new government promptly restored the original pre-1975 flag...
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    Union weakened at the end of the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc disintegrated. The events in Hungary were part of the Revolutions of 1989, known in Hungarian as...
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    Peaceful Revolution, a part of the international Revolutions of 1989 including a series of protests by the East German citizens, led to the fall of the Berlin...
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    socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989 (see Revolutions of 1989). From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People's...
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    Western European countries. During the revolutions of 1989, many Albanians remained unaware of events because of state controlled information in the isolated...
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    June Struggle, South Korea, 1987 People Power Revolution, Manila, 1986 Revolutions of 1989, Eastern Bloc, 1989–1991 Similar student killings 2024 Bangladesh...
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    awakening song. Baltic Way Forest Brothers Revolutions of 1989 Dissolution of the Soviet Union Nonviolent revolution Chervona Ruta (festival) Estonian: laulev...
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    states remained under Soviet influence until the Revolutions of 1989. In 1991, upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, only five communist states remained:...
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  • party in Poland created in 1990, shortly after the Revolutions of 1989. The party was the main party of the successor parties to the Polish United Workers...
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    Orange Alternative (category Counterculture of the 1980s)
    was the most picturesque element of Polish opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism. It suspended activity in 1989, but reactivated in 2001 and has been...
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  • Karpovsky. The song became associated with the Revolutions of 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall also in 1989 and was performed by the Scorpions at the Brandenburg...
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    remained a repressed member of the Eastern Bloc. In 1989, concurrently with the Revolutions of 1989, Hungary peacefully transitioned into a democratic...
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  • between 1988 and 1989 in Yugoslavia. The protests overthrew the government of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro as well as the governments of the Serbian...
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    Revolution of 1989, which had led to the end of the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was created with the dissolution of...
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    Romanian Revolution—the only violent overthrow of a communist government in the course of the Revolutions of 1989. Ceaușescu and his wife Elena fled the capital...
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  • decade) is a series of revolutions occurring in various locations within a particular timespan. In many cases, past revolutions and revolutionary waves...
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