GLASNOST, PERESTROIKA & GORBACHEV (1985-1991)
EAST MEDITERRANEAN: BLACK & CASPIAN SEAS
North Africa
USSR
Perestroika
The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Chernobyl, Ukraine 1986
Pripyat funfair was due to be opened on May 1st. The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26th. It remains one of the most irradiated parts of Pripyat since the disaster, making it still dangerous today, 22 years on.
Matthias Rust & plane flying onto Red Square, Moscow
Matthias Rust
Matthias Rust & Plane
Anatoly Scharansky
•Andrei Sakharov• Physicist and human rights activist.
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking as a delegate to the Congress of People’s Deputies—the first Soviet parliament with democratically elected representatives. Late 1980s. Only a few years before, Sakharov was still under house arrest in Gorky.
PhotoCourtesty of Yuri Rost.
The American Soviet Walk• In the summer of 1987 about
230 Americans and 200 Soviets marched from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to Moscow, USSR. The Walk, aimed at “ending an arms race nobody wants,” was unprecedented in the history of the American-Soviet relations. For the first time ever the citizens of the two opposing nuclear superpowers united in a large-scale, joint march for peace and nuclear disarmament.
Gorbachev’s address to the UN General Assembly Dec.1988
Caucasus- Armenia- Azerbaijan- Georgia
Central Asia- Kazakhstan- Kyrgyz Republic- Tajikistan- Turkmenistan- Uzbekistan
Kazahkstan
Right: Banner from ‘the Baltic chain’ showing the three Baltic states symbolically linked in national costumes.Latvian War Museum, Riga.
left: A poster for ‘the Baltic chain’ in August 1989 from Tallinn to Vilnius.
Latvia, Lithuania, & Estonia. August 23, 1989
Armenia & Azerbaijan
Ukraine
Europe 1989
Map of Eastern Europe after 1989
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