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| Agreement Paris Peace Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich |  |
| Paris The Peace Agreement with the USA enables withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia |
| Arrest of Gorbachev Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 19th Aug Foros Arrested during a Coup d'etat |
| Arrest of Gorbachev Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 18th Aug Crimea Gorbachev is detained in his summer residence on the orders of Kryuchkov |
| Arrest of Yanaev Yanaev, Gennady Ivanovich | |
| 21st Aug Moscow The Coup fails & Yanaev is arrested but later amnestied by the Russian Duma |
| Chairman ISS Bakatin Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Inter-republican Security Service |
| Chairman KGB Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Appointed Chairman of the KGB |
| Chairman KGB Kryuchkov, Vladimir | |
| Moscow Arrested & replacec as chairman of the KGB by Bakatin |
| Chairman Russian People's Union Baburin, Sergei Nikolaevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Russian People's Union |
| CIS Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 24th Dec The Presidents of Russia, Ukraine & Belarus create the Commonwealth of Ind States |
| Colonel Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| Sep Moscow Appointed Colonel General |
| Commonwealth of Independent States Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Dec Yeltsin, Ukrainian Pres. Leonid Kravchuk, and Belarus Pres. Stanislav Shuskevich meet in a hunting lodge to proclaim the Soviet Union null and void and to form a loose Commonwealth of Independent States |
| 13th Dec Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) agree to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) being organized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin |
| 17th Dec Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agree to dissolve the Soviet Union by the new year |
| Communist Party Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 20th July Yeltsin bans political activity in Government offices and republic-run businesses, effectively curtailing the influence of the Communist Party |
| 21st Aug Yeltsin bans the Communist Party of the Russian Republic for its central role in the August 1991 Coup against the Gorbachev government |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Gorbachev and Yeltsin act to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB |
| 6th Nov Moscow Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party |
| Conference of G7 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| July London Russia attends the G7 Conference |
| Congress of RSFSR Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 10th July Takes the presidential oath at the 5th Congress of the RSFSR deputies |
| Constitution Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 17th Mar Moscow A small majority for his proposal for a federation of socialist sovereign republics |
| 3rd June Moscow Gorbachev announces a final agreement on a treaty designed to preserve the Soviet federation while giving more power to the republics |
| 3rd June Moscow The USSR is renamed the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics |
| 12th June Russia stages it 1st ever general election |
| 12th June St Petersburg The people of Leningrad vote by 55% to 43% to change their city name to St Petersburg |
| 25th Dec Moscow Gorbachev resigns his position as President of the USSR, signifying the demise of the Soviet Union, 14 former Soviet republics (including Russia) become independent states |
| 25th Dec Moscow The USSR ceases to exist |
| 25th Dec Moscow The USSR ends after republics declare independence |
| Constitution Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th June Moscow Yeltsin consolidates his position when he is elected to the newly created position of Russian Executive President |
| 10th July Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic |
| 20th July Yeltsin bans political activity in Government offices and republic-run businesses, effectively curtailing the influence of the Communist Party |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion |
| 9th Dec Gorbachev challenges Yeltsin's declaration that the Soviet Union was dead, branding a new Slavic commonwealth "illegal and dangerous" |
| 12th Dec Yeltsin wins landslide approval in the Russian legislature for his new commonwealth, while Soviet President Gorbachev edges closer to resigning, saying, "The main work of my life is done" |
| 13th Dec Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) agree to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) being organized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin |
| 17th Dec Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agree to dissolve the Soviet Union by the new year |
| 23rd Dec President Bush speaks by telephone with Russian President Yeltsin, after which a senior Bush administration official said the United States would extend diplomatic recognition to the Russian republic |
| 25th Dec Yeltsin bans the CPSU, sequestering its considerable assets and skillfully engineering the Soviet Union's peaceful dissolution |
| Coup d'Etat Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| 19th Aug One of the ring leaders who plots against Gorbachev |
| Coup d'Etat Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| Aug Moscow An ally of Boris Yeltsin, supports an independent Russia from the Soviet Union |
| Aug Moscow Arrests members of the Emergency Committee |
| Aug Moscow Organizes the defence of the White House & ensures the arrival of the MVD units |
| Coup d'Etat Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| June The Albanian Government is overthrown |
| Aug Moscow Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Moscow against the Coup d'etat |
| 18th Aug Feros Imprisoned at his holiday villa, dacha, in the Crimea by hardline communists |
| 19th Aug Moscow A Coup takes place while Gorbachev is establishing a federal Union of Sovereign States |
| 20th Aug Moscow Russian troops defect to Yeltsin & the Coup collapses |
| 21st Aug Black Sea Gorbachev is held under guard in a Dacha by the Black Sea |
| 21st Aug Moscow Reform is given a poweeful boost as the Communist Party is weakened |
| 21st Aug Moscow Restored as President & the Coup is defeated |
| 21st Aug Moscow The Communist conspirators flee Moscow |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Gorbachev resumes presidency in Moscow |
| Coup d'Etat Kryuchkov, Vladimir | |
| 18th Aug Crimea Gorbachev is detained in his summer residence on the orders of Kryuchkov |
| 19th Aug Moscow Declares as state of emergency |
| 19th Aug Moscow Forms an 8 man Emergency Committee & declares Gorbachev deposed |
| 19th Aug Moscow Gennady Yanayev is declared Gorbachev's replacement as President |
| Coup d'Etat Lukyanov, Anatoly Ivanovich | |
| 19th Aug Moscow Forms an 8 man Emergency Committee & declares Gorbachev deposed & a state of emergency |
| Coup d'Etat Pugo, Boris | |
| Aug Moscow Death of Boris Pugo, commits suicide during the attempted coud d'etat |
| Coup d'Etat Pugo, Boris Karlovich | |
| 19th Aug Moscow Forms an 8 man Emergency Committee & declares Gorbachev deposed & a state of emergency |
| Coup d'Etat Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 20th Aug Leningrad Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Coup d'Etat Yanaev, Gennady Ivanovich | |
| 19th Aug Moscow Declares a state of emergency |
| 19th Aug Moscow Declares Gorbachev deposed |
| 19th Aug Moscow Forms an 8 man Emergency Committee |
| 19th Aug Moscow Gennady Yanayev is declared Gorbachev's replacement as President |
| 21st Aug Moscow The Coup fails & Yanaev is arrested but later amnestied by the Russian Duma |
| Coup d'Etat Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 18th Aug Crimea Gorbachev is detained in his summer residence on the orders of Kryuchkov |
| 18th Aug Yeltsin's crowning achievement comes on this day as he stands defiantly atop an armored personnel carrier and challenges a hard-liner Coup against Soviet President Gorbachev, he's hailed as a defender of democracy |
| 19th Aug Moscow A putsch began in Moscow, Soviet hard-liners, Janajev and the KGB, remove Gorbachev from power, in defiance Yeltsin calls for a general strike |
| 19th Aug Moscow Yeltsin announces he is taking control of Russia |
| 19th Aug Moscow Yeltsin condemns the Coup & calls for resistance & causes it to fail |
| 20th Aug Moscow Russian troops defect to Yeltsin & the Coup collapses |
| 21st Aug Brussels Yeltsin assures the Foreign Ministers of NATO, who are convened in Brussels , that the Coup attempt is failing |
| 21st Aug Moscow The Coup fails in part when General Alexander Lebed refused to move troops to surround Yeltsin's Moscow stronghold |
| 21st Aug Moscow The hard-line Coup against Soviet President Gorbachev collapses in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Yeltsin |
| 21st Aug Moscow Yeltsin bans the Communist Party, the Coup collapses |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Gorbachev and Yeltsin act to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB |
| Death of Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| Death of Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeev, commits suicide after the failed August coup |
| Death of Pugo, Boris Pugo, Boris | |
| Aug Moscow Death of Boris Pugo, commits suicide during the attempted coud d'etat |
| Demonstrations Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 28th Mar Moscow Tens of thousands of supporters of Yeltsin march in Moscow in defiance of President Gorbachev's ban on rallies |
| Diplomacy Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| April The 1st Russian President to visit Japan |
| 6th July President Bush sends a personal message to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, urging a stronger effort to conclude arms control talks |
| 31st July Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction |
| 27th Aug The USA recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania |
| Diplomacy Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 18th June Arrives in the United States for visits with American officials, including President Bush |
| 19th June Yeltsin lobbies Congress during a Washington visit as he seeks closer ties |
| 20th June Yeltsin, newly elected President of the Russian republic, is welcomed to the White House by President Bush |
| 10th July President Bush tells reporters a Soviet proposal to end the Persian Gulf War fell "well short of what would be required", President Yeltsin delivers an unprecedented public appeal for Gorbachev to resign |
| Dissolution RCP Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow The Russian Communist Party is dissolved |
| Dissolution RSFSR Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Moscow The RSFSR Congress of People's deputies is dissolved by Presidential decree |
| Economy Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 17th July London Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev makes a personal appeal for Western aid at the conclusion of the Group of Seven economic summit in London |
| 25th July Gorbachev urges Communist leaders at a Central Committee meeting to reject "outdated ideological dogmas" and embrace a market economy |
| Economy Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 30th Nov Yeltsin's Russian Federation agrees to bail out Gorbachev's central Soviet Government from a budget crisis that threatens to cut off the salaries of millions of workers and paralyze the country |
| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms |
| Election Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Runs against Yeltsin as Gorbahcov's candidate but only polls 3.4% |
| Election Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 12th June Russia stages it 1st ever general election |
| Election Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th June Russians go to the polls and elect Yeltsin as President |
| G7 Membership Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Russia attends a meeting of the G7 & transforms it into the G8 |
| G8 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Russia attends a meeting of the G7 & transforms it into the G8 |
| Head of the Committee for External Relations Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 28th June Leningrad Appointed Head of the Committee for External Relations of the St Petersburg Mayor's Office, with responsibility for promoting international relations and foreign investments |
| Inauguration of Yeltsin Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 10th July Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic |
| Independence Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| During a Coup against Gorbachev Estonia declares its full independence |
| 9th April Georgia Georgia proclaims independence from Moscow |
| 10th April Georgia Georgia proclaims a general strike |
| 10th April Ossetia Troops are moved into Ossetia to reassert control over Georgia |
| 27th Aug The USA recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania |
| 27th Aug Moscow The USA recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania |
| 6th Nov The Ukraine signs the Soviet economic-union treaty at the Kremlin |
| 1st Dec The Ukraine votes for it's independence during a referendum |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev resigns his position as President of the USSR, signifying the demise of the Soviet Union, 14 former Soviet republics (including Russia) become independent states |
| Independence Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 1st Dec In a referendum the Ukraine votes for independence |
| Invasion of Georgia Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 10th April Ossetia Troops are moved into Ossetia to reassert control over Georgia |
| Invasion of Lithuania Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 13th Jan Vilnius Soviet troops storm a television station in Vilnius |
| KGB Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich | |
| 20th Aug Leningrad Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Mayor Popov, Gavriil Kharitonovich | |
| June Moscow Appointed Mayor of Moscow |
| Minister of Finance Barchuk, Vasily Vasilevich | |
| Oct Appointed Minister of Finance, Deputy |
| Minister of Internal Affairs Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| 28th Aug Appointed Minister of Internal Affairs for USSR |
| Minister of State Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| Oct Appointed Minister of State Security |
| Nobel Prize Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 5th June Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize |
| Nuclear Warfare Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 29th July The USA& Russia agree to arms control after 9 years of negotiatons |
| 31st July Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction |
| 6th Oct AnnouncesNuclear cuts |
| Oath Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 10th July Takes the presidential oath at the 5th Congress of the RSFSR deputies |
| President Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th June Moscow Yeltsin consolidates his position when he is elected to the newly created position of Russian Executive President |
| Prime Minister Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 6th Nov Moscow Appointed Prime Minister of Russia |
| Privatization of Land Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms |
| Rebellion Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 10th April Ossetia Troops are moved into Ossetia to reassert control over Georgia |
| Referendum Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 10th Feb Moscow A referendum in Lithuania votes in favour of independence from Moscow |
| 17th Mar Moscow Small majority a renewed federation of socialist sovereign republics |
| 12th June St Petersburg The people of Leningrad vote by 55% to 43% to change their city name to St Petersburg |
| Referendum Sobchak, Anatoli | |
| 12th June St Petersburg The people of Leningrad vote by 55% to 43% to change their city name to St Petersburg |
| Reform of Communist Party Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion |
| 25th July Gorbachev urges Communist leaders at a Central Committee meeting to reject "outdated ideological dogmas" and embrace a market economy |
| Reform of Communist Party Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 23rd July The draft of a new platform for the Soviet Communist Party is published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion |
| Reform of KGB Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Has the task of dividing the KGB into law & order, intelligence & counter-intelligence |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Ordered by Gorbachov to convert the KGB into a normal police force |
| Reform of Land Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 28th Dec Yeltsin orders state land privatized as he pushes ahead with his reforms |
| Reform of MVD Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| Sep Moscow Ends all party & political activities in the MVD |
| Resignation of Gorbachev Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 25th Dec Moscow Gorbachev resigns his position as President of the USSR, signifying the demise of the Soviet Union, 14 former Soviet republics (including Russia) become independent states |
| 25th Dec Moscow Resigns as leader of the Communist Party |
| Resignation of Gorbachev Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Feb Calls for Gorbachev's resignation on TV |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev goes on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence, ousted as Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin established his position |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev's resignation & the establishment of the Russian Republic ends the "Cold War" |
| Retirement Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 25th Dec Moscow Gorbachev annonces his retirement |
| Russian Republic Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 23rd Dec President Bush speaks by telephone with Russian President Yeltsin, after which a senior Bush administration official said the United States would extend diplomatic recognition to the Russian republic |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev goes on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence, ousted as Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin established his position |
| 25th Dec Gorbachev's resignation & the establishment of the Russian Republic ends the "Cold War" |
| Security Council Bakatin Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the security council |
| Siege of Ossetia Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 10th April Ossetia Troops are moved into Ossetia to reassert control over Georgia |
| State of Emergency Kryuchkov, Vladimir | |
| 19th Aug Moscow Declares as state of emergency |
| Summit G 7 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| London Fails to get other members of the G-7 to agree a financial package |
| Summit G 7 Primakov, Evgeny Maksimovich | |
| Moscow Prepares a plan of radical economic reforms to be supported by massive western aid |
| Summit G 7 Yavlinsky, Grigory | |
| Moscow Prepares a plan of radical economic reforms to be supported by massive western aid |
| Summit of Group 7 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 17th July London Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev makes a personal appeal for Western aid at the conclusion of the Group of Seven economic summit in London |
| Treaty of SAR Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 31st July Bush & Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction |
| Treaty of START 1 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 31st July Moscow Signs START 1 with the USA to reduce offensive strategic arms |
| Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 3rd June Moscow The USSR is renamed the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics |
| United Nations Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
