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Interfront
Interfront was a pro-communist political movement that aimed to preserve the Soviet Union as a unified Marxist–Leninist state and strongly opposed the pro-independence movements in the republics. It had branches in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and other union republics. Branches * Intermovement – the Estonian branch * International Front of the Working People of Latvia – the Latvian branch *Yedinstvo – the Lithuanian branch * Unity Movement for Equality in Rights – the Moldavian branch, founder of Transnistria * Interfront of the Donbass – the Ukrainian branch Opposition * Popular Front of Estonia * People's Movement of Ukraine * Rastokhez See also * Dissolution of the Soviet Union *Soviet Union ''Soyuz'', pro-Russian Soyuz in Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Front Of The Working People Of Latvia
The International Front of the Working People of the Latvian SSR or Interfront (, ) was a pro-Soviet socialist organization in the Latvian SSR, which during the years 1989–1991, supported Latvia remaining part of the USSR. Interfront was founded in January 1989 as a reaction to the creation of the pro-independence Popular Front of Latvia. In 1989 it took part in forming the ''United Front of Workers of the USSR'' (Объединенный фронт трудящихся СССР). Its membership consisted almost entirely of Soviet military members and Communist Party officials. The Interfront central leadership published a newspaper ''Yedinstvo'' (russian: Единство, 'Unity'). Local sections of the organisation, for example in Liepāja, published their own information bulletins. Interfront also made radio broadcasts. Among the leaders of Interfront were Igor Lopatin, Anatoly Alekseyev, and Tatjana Ždanoka. Interfront was particularly active during the January 1991 even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interfront Of The Donbass
The International Movement of Donbass (russian: Интернациональное движение Донбасса, Internatsional'noye dvizheniye Donbassa, IDD; uk, Інтернаціональний рух Донбасу, Internatsionalʹnyy rukh Donbasu, IRD), or just Intermovement (russian: Интердвижение; uk, Інтеррух), also called the Interfront of the Donbass (russian: Интерфронт Донбасса; uk, Інтерфронт Донбасу) was a political movement in the late Ukrainian SSR and the first decade of independent Ukraine. It was founded in 1990 by the members of the intelligentsia in the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine. It was founded in opposition to the People's Movement of Ukraine, which favored Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union. Similar Interfront pro-Soviet movements existed in the Latvian SSR, Moldovan SSR and other republics. In 1992, it grew stronger as miners and local elites opposed the perceived econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity Movement For Equality In Rights
The Unity Movement for Equality in Rights ( ro, Mișcarea republicană pentru egalitate în drepturi "Unitate-Edinstvo", MUE) was a political party in Moldova. History The party was formed in July 1989 as Interfront, part of a left-wing pan-Soviet Union movement. Its founders were members of ethnic minorities including Andrey Safonov, Piotr Șornikov and Vladimir Solonari, whose aim was to counteract the Popular Front of Moldova.Andrei Brezianu & Vlad Spânu (2007) ''Historical Dictionary of Moldova'', Scarecrow Press, p189 In 1991 Interfront MPs refused to sign the Moldovan Declaration of Independence, instead pushing for a federation within the Soviet Union split into Gagauz, Moldovan and Russian entities. In December 1991 the party was renamed Unity Movement for Equality in Rights. It formed an alliance with the Socialist Party to contest the 1994 elections. The alliance was also supported by the then-unregistered Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova The Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intermovement
The Intermovement ''(International Movement of Workers in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic)'' ( et, Interliikumine, russian: Интердвижение, translit. Interdvizhenie) was a political movement and organisation in the Estonian SSR. It was founded on 19 July 1988An Annotated Survey of Independent Movements in Eastern Europe 13 June 1989 and claimed by different sources 16,000 - 100,000 members. The original name of the movement was (International Front of Workers in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic), which was changed to Intermovement in autumn 1988. The movement was aligned with the pro-Soviet wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yedinstvo (Lithuania)
Yedinstvo (literally: ''Unity'', russian: Единство, lt, Vienybė, pl, Jedność) was a pro-soviet and anti-Sąjūdis movement in the Lithuanian SSR during the Perestroika era. The goals of the movement were similar to those of the Latvian and Estonian Internationalist Movements, e.g. opposition to disintegration of the Soviet Union. Yedinstvo was supported by the Soviet military and the KGB. In addition to ethnic Russians, the organization had some success among the Polish minority in Lithuania, some of whom preferred Lithuania as a member of the Soviet Union. Yedinstvo went as far as to support forming a Polish autonomous region in southeastern Lithuania. Some commentators suggested that the organization was more popular with the Polish minority than the Russophone minority of Lithuania, which might have surprised the Poles of Warsaw, then seeking a de-communization in Poland. At the election to the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, two Poles were elected to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Movements In The Soviet Union
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Of The Revolutions Of 1989
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimea
Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a population of 2.4 million. The peninsula is almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine. To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia. The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Sivash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey. Crimea (called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period) has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe. Greeks colonized its southern fringe and were absorbed by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soyuz (political Party)
The Party "Soyuz" ( uk, Партія "Союз") is a national political party in Ukraine that was mostly based in Crimea until 2014. It was registered in June 1997 under a registration number 867. History The party was founded in 1997 by , one of the richest people of Crimea at the time. The Constituent Party Congress took place on March 15, 1997. Svitlana Savchenko was elected the leader of the party. The congress also adopted the party's program and statute. The party was formed on the basis of the prohibited ''Crimean party''. II Congress (October 4, 1997), city of Simferopol. At the congress was adopted the party's pre-election program. III Congress (November 16, 1997). The congress confirmed the list of deputies for the next elections which was registered with Central Election Commission on December 18, 1997. IV Congress (July 11, 1998). The congress reviewed the election campaign of the party and made some changes to the party's Political council and its statute. The part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soyuz (faction)
Soyuz (Russian: Союз, translated as 'Union') was a faction in the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The faction was critical of Perestroika and liberal reforms; it was opposed to de-centralization of the Soviet Union. The group was founded on 14 February 1990, and its leaders included Viktor Alksnis (from Latvian SSR), Yegor Ligachev, Nikolai Petrushenko, Yevgeny Kogan (Estonian SSR), and Anatoly Checkoyev (Georgian SSR, South Ossetian autonomous region). The faction claimed to have 500 members in the USSR Supreme Soviet. The group managed to oust Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze for 'giving up' Eastern Europe. In February 1991, it asked for a 'state of emergency' to be introduced in the USSR. The Soyuz faction did not formally support the August Coup of 1991, an event that had devastating consequences for the faction. Many of the group leaders joined Sergei Baburin's movement Russian All-People's Union and the related Rossiya faction in the RSFSR parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of The Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991. It brought an end to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's (later also President) effort to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political stalemate and economic backslide. The Soviet Union had experienced internal stagnation and ethnic separatism. Although highly centralized until its final years, the country was made up of fifteen top-level republics that served as homelands for different ethnicities. By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics alre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rastokhez
The Popular Movement "Revival" (, ) was a political party in Tajikistan in the years of Independence Day (Tajikistan), independence and Tajikistani Civil War, civil war (1989–1997). It was founded on 14 September 1989, by members of the Tajik intelligentsia, among them Tohir Abdujabbor, with a moderate Nationalism, nationalist, secularist and liberal democratic program. Its prominent position in the opposition to the ruling Communist Party of Tajikistan ensured that it became the main scapegoat for the Dushanbe riots of February 1990. The party was banned, which ensured total victory for the Communist Party of Tajikistan, Communists in the upcoming 1990 Tajik Supreme Soviet election, elections. During the next years and the Tajik Civil War, Rastokhez, then underground, as well as the similarly minded Democratic Party (Tajikistan), Democratic Party, participated in the United Tajik Opposition (UTO) along with more Islamic groups. The party ceased to exist at the same time as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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