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Karabakh territory; demonstrations in Arme-
nia; anti-Armenian pogrom in Sumgait, a
suburb of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
(March) Nina Andreeva's anti-perestroika letter
published in Sovetskaia Rossiia .
(May) Soviets begin pullout from Afghanistan.
(May-June) Moscow summit between U.S.
President Reagan and Gorbachev.
Trial of Yuri Churbanov, Brezhnev's son-in-law,
for bribery and extortion.
(June) Celebration of millennium of Christian-
ity coming to Kiev.
Nineteenth Party Conference in Moscow.
Kremlin sends troops to Nagorno-Karabakh.
(October) Gorbachev becomes president of the
Soviet Union, replacing former Foreign Min-
ister Andrei Gromyko.
(November) New presidential system and
Congress of People's Deputies adopted.
Estonian Communist Party declares supremacy
of Estonian laws.
(December) Gorbachev offers unilateral Soviet
military reductions.
Earthquake in Soviet Armenia.
Gorbachev and U.S. President Reagan meet in
New York City.
Doctor Zhivago first published in Russia.
Coal miners strike in Siberia, the Ukraine, and
Central Asia.
Pro-independence demonstrations in Baltic
republics.
RUKH (Popular Movement of Ukraine) demands
independence.
(May-June) Congress of People's Deputies and
reformed Supreme Soviet hold meetings, tele-
vised across Soviet Union; Gorbachev elected
chairman of new Supreme Soviet (USSR pres-
ident).
(June) Gorbachev abandons Brezhnev Doctrine.
(July) Coal miners strike in Vorkuta, Karaganda,
Siberia, and the Ukraine.
(August-December) Collapse of Communist
governments across Eastern Europe.
(October) Armenia and Azerbaijan engage in
war.
(November) Berlin Wall comes down.
(December) Lithuanian parliament approves
multiparty system.
Death of Andrei Sakharov.
1990
(February) Civil war in Azerbaijan; Soviet troops
occupy Baku.
Massive pro-democracy rally in Moscow.
End of Communist Party's political monopoly;
Central Committee votes to allow multiparty
system.
(March-August) Various republics declare their
independence and/or sovereignty.
(March) Free elections in East Germany.
Lithuania declares independence.
(April) Georgia declares independence.
(May-June) Gorbachev-Bush summit in Wash-
ington, D.C.
(June 12) RSFSR Congress of People's Deputies
passes “Declaration of State Sovereignty of
Russia” (Independence Day).
(July) Lithuania agrees to postpone indepen-
dence.
Twenty-eighth Party Congress.
Yeltsin and other liberals resign from Commu-
nist Party.
Supreme Soviet passes law to lift press censorship.
1988-1990
Various Soviet republics declare themselves to be
sovereign.
1989
(February) Soviet troops complete withdrawal
from Afghanistan.
(March) National elections for Congress of Peo-
ple's Deputies; first elections to permit multi-
candidates and nonparty candidates; Boris
Yeltsin and Andrei Sakharov overwhelmingly
elected to seats in new Congress of People's
Deputies.
Gorbachev calls for dismantling of collective
farm system.
(April) Troops shoot at pro-independence demon-
strators in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Soviet-Chinese summit in Beijing.
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