Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Wall opens”
9 Nov 1989 — After weeks of mass protest and an exodus through Hungary, East Germany’s border crossings open. Gorbachev keeps the Soviet troops stationed in the country in their barracks, and the bloc’s regimes fall one after another before the year is out.
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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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