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Gorbachev renounces the Brezhnev Doctrine
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Boris Yeltsin is elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies
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Collapse of the Berlin Wall
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Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian Republic
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Gorbachev is placed under house arrest
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Bush signed the START treaty at the Moscow Summit
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Democratic uprisings and violence erupts in Lithuania and Latvia
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Unsuccessful coup against Gorbachev
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Secretary of State James Baker articulates five basic principles
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Gorbachev resigns