Ukrainian Referendum on Independence (Draft)

Violent Suppression of Protest in Tbilisi (Draft)

Sakharov Returns from Gorky

The return from exile of physicist, dissident, and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) was a media sensation—here emblematized in a photograph of reporters swarming him as he steps out of a car in Moscow. His return marked a powerful popular comeback for the renowned human rights activist who, despite years of official condemnation, received growing press support through perestroika until his death in 1989.

Gorbachev's 1989 China Visit (Draft)

Death and funeral of Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a physicist and Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident, returned to Moscow from internal exile in 1986. He quickly became one of the USSR's most popular and respected public figures, surpassing even Gorbachev in some polls. His sudden death in December 1989 drew tens of thousands of mourners, despite a muted official response.

Expropriation of the Territory of Art, E.T.A--text, 1991

Image of the actionist group E.T.A. forming an obscene word out of their bodies in front of the Kremlin