Category: Russian history

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Northern Eurasia 1955: Warsaw Pact
Northern Eurasia 1955
Warsaw Pact

After the death of Stalin in 1953, a...

Northern Eurasia 1963: Height of the Cold War
Northern Eurasia 1963
Height of the Cold War

Although the Warsaw Pact was...

Northern Eurasia 1969: Sino-Soviet Border Conflict
Northern Eurasia 1969
Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) had...

Northern Eurasia 1985: Soviet War in Afghanistan
Northern Eurasia 1985
Soviet War in Afghanistan

In 1979, the Soviet Union intervened...

Northern Eurasia 1989: Glasnost
Northern Eurasia 1989
Glasnost

By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union...

Northern Eurasia 1991: End of the Warsaw Pact
Northern Eurasia 1991
End of the Warsaw Pact

The collapse of communism in eastern...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Soviet Coup Attempt
Northern Eurasia 1991
Soviet Coup Attempt

By now the forces unleashed by...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Baltic Indepedence
Northern Eurasia 1991
Baltic Indepedence

The first republics to break away...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Belavezha Accords
Northern Eurasia 1991
Belavezha Accords

The failure of the 1991 August coup...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Northern Eurasia 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The signing of the Belavezha Accords...

Northern Eurasia 1993: Russian Constitutional Crisis
Northern Eurasia 1993
Russian Constitutional Crisis

With the fall of the Soviet Union,...

Northern Eurasia 1995: First Chechen War
Northern Eurasia 1995
First Chechen War

The end of the Soviet Union sparked...

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