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Gorbachev resigned on 25 December 1991 and what was left of the Soviet parliament voted to dissolve the union the following day. The process began with growing unrest in the country's various constituent national republics developing into an incessant political and legislative conflict between them and the central government.
Changes in national boundaries after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Without Gorbachev's knowledge, Yeltsin met with Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk and Belarusian president Stanislav Shushkevich in Belovezha Forest, near Brest, Belarus, on 8 December and signed the Belavezha Accords, which declared ...
Bowing to the inevitable, Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president on 25 December, and the Supreme Soviet ratified the Belavezha Accords the next day, legally dissolving itself and the Soviet Union as a political entity. By the end of 1991, the few Soviet institutions that hadn't been taken over by Russia had dissolved.
Saturday - Christmas Day - marks the 30th anniversary of one of the turning points in the history of the past century: the collapse of the Soviet Union. People strolling across Red Square in ...
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet leader who knocked down the walls between East and West, dies at 91.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev ...
July 31, 1991 – Ratification of START I treaty between United States and the Soviet Union. August 19, 1991 – Start of the Soviet Union coup d'état attempt. August 21, 1991 – The Soviet Union coup d'état is dissolved. August 24, 1991 – Gorbachev resigns from the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday.