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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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...

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...

colour revolutions (sometimes coloured revolutions) were a series of often non-violent protests and accompanying (attempted or successful) changes of government...

bloody Romanian Revolution), beginning with the victory of Solidarity in that year's Polish legislative elections. The Revolutions of 1989 provided the template...

and corruption. Revolutions typically trigger counter-revolutions which seek to halt revolutionary momentum, or to reverse the course of an ongoing revolutionary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

system since it gained independence following the Revolutions of 1989. Currently, the political landscape of Hungary is dominated by the Fidesz – Hungarian...

Western European countries. During the revolutions of 1989, many Albanians remained unaware of events because of state controlled information in the isolated...

Pact. After the peak of Marxism–Leninism, when many communist states were established, the Revolutions of 1989 brought down most of the communist states;...

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...

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...

multi-party democracy was re-established in 1990, coinciding with the Revolutions of 1989. The new government promptly restored the original pre-1975 flag...

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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states remained under Soviet influence until the Revolutions of 1989. In 1991, upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, only five communist states remained:...

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...

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...

decade) is a series of revolutions occurring in various locations within a particular timespan. In many cases, past revolutions and revolutionary waves...

fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction...

unification of Moldova and Romania is a popular concept[vague] and hypothetical unification in the two countries that began during the Revolutions of 1989. The...

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...

Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's...

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...

was the most picturesque element of Polish opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism. It suspended activity in 1989, but reactivated in 2001 and has been...

part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several Warsaw Pact countries. The Romanian Revolution was the only one of these revolutions where a Communist...