Fall of the Soviet Union
Explore Fall of the Soviet Union on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Resignation of Gorbachev (1991)
- Glasnost and perestroika (1985)
- August Coup attempt in USSR (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader (1985)
- Belavezha Accords (1991)
- Ukraine votes to leave the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gorbachev's leadership of the Soviet Union (1985)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Polish elections of 1989 (1989)
- Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia (1989)
- Baltic Way protest (1989)
- Lithuania declares independence (1990)
- Hungarian border opens (1989)
- The Warsaw Pact dissolves itself (1991)
- Reykjavík Summit (1986)
- Romanian Revolution of 1989 (1989)
- INF Treaty signed (1987)
- The Pan-European Picnic breaches the Iron Curtain (1989)
- Tear down this wall speech (1987)
- The Communist Party surrenders its monopoly (1990)
- The Soviet Union holds its first contested elections (1989)
- The Red Army leaves Afghanistan (1989)
- Monday demonstrations in Leipzig (1989)
- Malta Summit (1989)
- Soviet troops storm the Vilnius TV tower (1991)
- Presidency of Boris Yeltsin (1991)