The Communist Party surrenders its monopoly
1990 · Event
The Congress of People's Deputies strikes Article 6 — the Party's constitutional 'leading role' — from the Soviet constitution, and creates an executive presidency for Gorbachev in its place. After seventy-two years, the one-party state is legally over; the state itself has twenty-one months left.
On these timelines: Fall of the Soviet Union, Russia & the USSR, Master, Cold War
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