Ethnic Riots Erupt in Armenia
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Human Rights
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Soviet Union, Armenia
- Date: February, 1988
Article abstract: Ethnic riots erupt in Armenia, touching off more ethnic turbulence in the wake of Gorbachev’s policies of “openness” and “restructuring” and leading to the eventual dismantling of the multinational Soviet Communist empire.
Summary of Event
In order to end what he called the “period of stagnation” under his predecessors, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later its head of state, introduced his policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring)....
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