Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Baltic Way (1989)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Baltic Way”
23 Aug 1989 — On the fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi–Soviet Pact, about two million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians join hands in a chain some 675 km long from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, demanding that Moscow admit the secret protocol that delivered them to it.
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- Collapse of the Soviet Union (chapter 9 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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