Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Dissolution of the Soviet Union" in English language version.
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Radio Moscow reported on February 12 that a state of emergency had been declared in the capital of Tajikistan and an overnight curfew imposed by the Presidium of the republican Supreme Soviet
Done at Minsk, December 8,1991, and done at Alma Alta, December 21,1991
Violent nationalist riots erupted in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan, on 17 & 18 December 1986
These events contributed to the anti-Armenian riots of February 28–29 in Sumgait near Baku. According to official data, 32 Armenians were killed during the riots, but various Armenian sources claimed that more than 200 people were killed.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Efforts at pooling together different forces in northern Afghanistan, in order to contrast what was perceived as an attempt by Pashtuns to re-establish their hegemony over the region, started as early as 1990, when Dostum began experiencing an increasingly difficult relationship with Pashtuns both in the army and in the Hizb-i Demokratik-i Khalq. He is reported to have stated, in July 1990 in Moscow, that Uzbeks and Turkmens in northern Afghanistan would not tolerate Pashtun command everything as in the past.1 His later refusal to accept the Pashtun general sent by President Najibullah in January 1992 to rein in the military commanders of Northern Afghanistan is a well-known story. It led to the alliance of a number of formerly pro-government military leaders, of whom Dostum was just the most prominent, with the various jihadi factions. This alliance took the name of Harakat-e Shamal (the Movement of the North).
The collapse of communism, then, opened the entire world to capitalist penetration, shrank the imaginative and ideological space in which opposition to capitalist thought and practices might incubate, and impelled those who remained leftists to redefine their radicalism in alternative terms, which turned out to be those that capitalist systems could more, rather than less, easily manage. This was the moment when neoliberalism in the United States went from being a political movement to a political order.