Fall of the USSR Flashcards by Amber PImblett

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Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR

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1985

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Perestroika

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1985

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Uskorenie (acceleration), rationalisation policy

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1985-1986

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Chernobyl disaster

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1986

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Twelfth 5 Year Plan

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1986

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Glasnost

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1986

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27th Party Congress ‘Genuine Democracy’

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Feb 1986

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Reform policy of Perestroika

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1987-1990

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Law on State Enterprises

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1987

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Yeltsin attacks Gorbachev’s reforms

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Oct 1987

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Yeltsin dismissed as 1st Secretary in Moscow

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Nov 1987

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Co-operatives legalised

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Jan 1988

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Yeltsin removed from Politburo

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Feb 1988

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Start of conservative backlash

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Feb 1988

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Democratisation and multi-candidate elections

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1988-1990

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19th Party Congress = admission of scale of problems

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June 1988

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Popular fronts in Baltics

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Oct 1988

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Elections to Congress of People’s Deputies

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March 1989

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Demonstrations in Georgia

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April 1989

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Tblisi Massacre

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April 1989

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Gorbachev is Chairman of Supreme Soviet

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May 1989

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500 Day Programme

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October 1989

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Formation of IRDG (radicals)

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1989

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Fall of Berlin Wall

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Nov 1989

Article 6 repealed

March 1990

Lithuania gains independence

March 1990

Yeltsin resigns from Communist Party

July 1990

Georgia declares independence

April 1991

Yeltsin becomes President of Russia

June 1991

Hardliner's Coup

Aug 1991

Rejection of New Union Treaty

November 1991

Dissolution of the USSR

Dec 1991

Transformation policy of Perestroika

1990-1991

Gorbachev's resignation as President of USSR

25th December 1991

CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) Agreement

1991

Growth of Nationalism

1988-1990

Anti-Alcohol Campaign

May 1985

Reintroduction of private property

Jan 1991

27th Party Congress

Feb and March 1986

Gorbachev's proposed new union treaty

1990

Gorbachev's proposed referendum

March 1991

9+1 agreement

April 1991

Russia elected its own president

June 1991

Complete draft of the treaty of the Union of Sovereign States

July 1991

Emergency Committee set up

18 August 1991

Emergency Committee anounced Gorbachev's resignation

18 August 1991

Coup collapsed

21 August 1991

Gorbachev's resignation

25 December 1991

USSR formally ceased to exist

31st December 1991

CIS established

21st December 1991