1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia

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1991
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the Soviet Union

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1991
History of the Soviet Union

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1991
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Russia

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1991
History of Russia  • Timeline  • Years

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

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

Union level

Russia

Events

January

Union level and union republics

January Events (Lithuania)

Russia

March

Union level and union republics

1991 Soviet Union referendum

Russia

June

Union level and union republics

Russia

July

Union level and union republics

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

Russia

August

Union level and union republics

  • 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.
    • 22 August - Putschists arrested.

Russia

  • 19 to 22 August - 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
    • 19 August - President 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

Union level and union republics

Russia

Births

Deaths


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