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GLASNOST , PERESTROIKA & GORBACHEV (1985-1991)

GLASNOST , PERESTROIKA & GORBACHEV (1985-1991). EAST MEDITERRANEAN: BLACK & CASPIAN SEAS. USSR. North Africa. Perestroika. The 27 th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Chernobyl, Ukraine 1986.

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GLASNOST , PERESTROIKA & GORBACHEV (1985-1991)

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  1. GLASNOST, PERESTROIKA & GORBACHEV (1985-1991)

  2. EAST MEDITERRANEAN: BLACK& CASPIAN SEAS USSR North Africa

  3. Perestroika

  4. The 27thCongress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

  5. Chernobyl, Ukraine 1986

  6. 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.

  7. Matthias Rust & plane flying onto Red Square, Moscow

  8. Matthias Rust

  9. Matthias Rust & Plane

  10. Anatoly Scharansky

  11. 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. Photo Courtestyof Yuri Rost.

  12. 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.

  13. Gorbachev’s address to the UN General Assembly Dec.1988

  14. Central Asia- Kazakhstan- Kyrgyz Republic- Tajikistan- Turkmenistan- Uzbekistan Caucasus- Armenia- Azerbaijan- Georgia

  15. Kazahkstan

  16. left: A poster for ‘the Baltic chain’ in August 1989 from Tallinn to Vilnius. Right: Banner from ‘the Baltic chain’ showing the three Baltic states symbolically linked in national costumes. Latvian War Museum, Riga.

  17. Latvia, Lithuania, & Estonia. August 23, 1989

  18. Armenia & Azerbaijan

  19. Ukraine

  20. Europe 1989

  21. Map of Eastern Europe after 1989

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