The Fall of the Soviet Union

By SaraStrawberryMan

  • Gorbachev renounces the Brezhnev Doctrine

  • Boris Yeltsin is elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies

  • Collapse of the Berlin Wall

  • Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian Republic

  • Gorbachev is placed under house arrest

  • Bush signed the START treaty at the Moscow Summit

  • Democratic uprisings and violence erupts in Lithuania and Latvia

  • Unsuccessful coup against Gorbachev

  • Secretary of State James Baker articulates five basic principles

  • Gorbachev resigns