dissolution of the Soviet Union

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historical event political event state dissolution

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the 1991 political collapse that ended the USSR, dismantled its communist government, and marked the formal conclusion of the Cold War era.

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form As subject As object
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 0 1
Soviet dissolution (1991) 0 1

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical event →
political event →
state dissolution →
countryDissolved Soviet Union →
Soviet Union →
surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
countrySucceededBy Armenia →
Azerbaijan →
Belarus →
Estonia →
Georgia →
Kazakhstan →
Kyrgyzstan →
Latvia →
Lithuania →
Moldova →
Russia →
surface form: Russian Federation

Tajikistan →
Turkmenistan →
Ukraine →
Uzbekistan →
endDate 1991-12-26 →
endedEra Cold War →
endedOrganization Warsaw Pact influence in Eastern Europe →
endYear 1991 →
formalizedBy Belavezha Accords →
surface form: Alma-Ata Protocol

Belavezha Accords →
hasCause economic stagnation in the Soviet Union →
failed August 1991 coup →
glasnost reforms →
political reforms of perestroika →
rise of nationalist movements in Soviet republics →
hasEffect creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States →
emergence of 15 independent post-Soviet states →
end of the Cold War →
end of the Communist Party monopoly on power in the USSR →
transition to market economies in many former Soviet republics →
hasSignificantEvent Belavezha Accords →
surface form: Alma-Ata Protocol

August 1991 Soviet coup attempt →
surface form: August Coup

Belavezha Accords →
resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev →
suspension of Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
languageOfOfficialActs Russian →
legalBasis Declaration No. 142-Н of the Soviet of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR →
location Almaty →
Polesia →
surface form: Belovezhskaya Pushcha

Moscow →
participant Boris Yeltsin →
Leonid Kravchuk →
Mikhail Gorbachev →
Stanislav Shushkevich →
leaders of the Soviet republics →
startDate 1991-08-19 →
timePeriod late 20th century →

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Order of the Red Star → abolishedWith → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
RSFSR → dissolutionContext → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
Abkhaz–Georgian conflict → hasCause → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
Eastern Europe → hasHistoricalEvent → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
Soviet–Finnish relations → hasKeyEvent → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
this entity surface form: Soviet dissolution (1991)
Cold War → hasSignificantEvent → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
First Chechen War → precededBy → dissolution of the Soviet Union →
this entity surface form: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Soviet period → significantEvent → dissolution of the Soviet Union →