1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia

The following lists events that happened during 1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia.

1991
in
the Soviet Union

Decades:
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:

1991
in
Russia

Decades:
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
See also:

The Soviet Union had a transitional government in 1991, during the fall of communism. Every republic in the union had growing nationalism until Christmas of 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union, abandoned the Union at the time of its dissolution. The dissolution created huge changes in politics and territorial claims. NATO scaled back its presence following the dissolution.

Incumbents

Soviet Union

Russia

Events

January

January Events (Lithuania)

March

1991 Soviet Union referendum

June

July

George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign START I treaty in Moscow

August

  • 19 to 22 August - 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
  • 19 August -
    • The "State Committee for the State of Emergency" created from the hardline Union-level functioners wishing to reverse the USSR's disintegration. State of emergency declared in certain regions of the country, military units and tanks entered in Moscow.
    • The first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin issued an address "To the citizens of Russia", in which the actions of the State Emergency Committee are characterized as a coup. Yeltsin urged the population to rebuff the putschists. Start of mass pro-democratic rallies in Moscow and Leningrad.
    • 22 August - Putschists arrested. The white-blue-red flag restored as the Russian national flag.

December

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1642 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

See also

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