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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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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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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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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and corruption. Revolutions typically trigger counter-revolutions which seek to halt revolutionary momentum, or to reverse the course of an ongoing revolutionary...
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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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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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Communist state (redirect from List of current communist states)
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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German reunification (redirect from Cost of unification of East and West Germany)
Peaceful Revolution, part of the international revolutions of 1989 including a series of protests by East German citizens, led to the fall of the Berlin...
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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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was one of the peaceful revolutions of 1989 at the peak of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s. A process of sociopolitical change that...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nicolae Ceaușescu (redirect from The Genius of the Carpathians)
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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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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Revolutionary wave (redirect from Waves of revolutions)
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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Chervona Ruta (festival) Dissolution of the Soviet Union Forest Brothers Nonviolent revolution Revolutions of 1989 Estonian: laulev revolutsioon; Latvian:...
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Hungary (redirect from Hungarian Republic of 1989)
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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Warsaw Pact (redirect from Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance)
spread of the Revolutions of 1989 through the Eastern Bloc, beginning with the Solidarity movement in Poland, its electoral success in June 1989 and the...
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Sinatra Doctrine (category Revolutions of 1989)
of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania had all been overthrown, thus bringing the Cold War to an end. Revolutions of 1989 ("Autumn of...
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Russian Revolution and Civil War Kiev Bolshevik Uprising October Revolution Day Revolutions of 1917–1923 Russian Civil War Russian Revolution (1917) Soviet...
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