The revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, [3] were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.

Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989. On November 9, 1989, thousands of jubilant Germans brought down the most visible symbol of division at the heart of Europe—the Berlin Wall.

Rather than sparking a renaissance in Communist thought, glasnost opened the floodgates to criticism of the entire Soviet apparatus. The state lost control of both the media and the public sphere, and democratic reform movements gained steam throughout the Soviet bloc.

2020年11月16日 · On 29 August, the Supreme Soviet indefinitely suspended all Communist Party activity, ending Communist rule in the Soviet Union. With his power hugely diminished, Gorbachev resigned on 25 December 1991 with the Soviet Union formerly dissolved the next day.

2019年11月8日 · Images of the Berlin Wall's collapse on Nov. 9, 1989, and of thousands of pro-democracy protesters clogging the streets of cities such as Warsaw, Prague and Budapest that year have long been...

2023年1月23日 · The Fall Of Communism And The Revolutions Of 1989. The year 1989 was a monumental year in world history. After about half a century of competition, free-market economics won the battle between capitalism and communism. This shift was accompanied and primarily caused by the revolutions of that year.

In the fall of 1989, people around the world turned their televisions on to watch astonishing scenes. Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Europe congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule.

On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall—the most potent symbol of the cold-war division of Europe—came down. Earlier that day, the Communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin.

These articles represent much of the Agency's short-term analysis of events unfolding in Central and Eastern Europe as popular opposition to Soviet misrule erupted and quickly surpassed anything the Communist regimes were prepared to understand or to which they could respond.

2020年1月31日 · It was the final death knell of the Cold War and marked an end of Communism in Europe, where it had first been established 74 years prior. Although Communism has nearly died out, there are still five countries that remain Communist : China, Cuba, Laos, …