"The Current Moment and Our Tasks" (Draft)

Andreeva's speech opening the first meeting of the All-Union COmmunist Party of Bolsheviks, 8 November 1991

"Glasnost. Informational Bulletin" (Draft)

Front cover of "Glasnost. Informational Bulletin," 1987

Gorbachev's speech on Socialist Democracy (Draft)

Yeltsin's campaign for the Congress of People's Deputies (Draft)

Sakharov's "Decree on Power"

Just five months before his death, Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) spoke out at the USSR’s First Congress of People’s Deputies, defying Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022) to advocate for a multi-party system in a speech broadcast live to millions—yet silenced within the Congress hall itself.

Human chain (Draft)

Photograph of human chain across Baltics, 23 august 1989