Question: Other than being expensive what was wrong with the Brezhnev Doctrine?
Answer: oppressive

Question: What is the nickname for Gorbachev's new doctrine?
Answer: Sinatra Doctrine

Question: How many people were involved in the Baltic Chain?
Answer: estimated 2 million

Question: How long was the chain?
Answer: 600 kilometres

Question: What states did the chain extend over?
Answer: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Question: What anniversary did the chain take place on?
Answer: 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

Question: What part of Europe was split up by the pact?
Answer: Eastern

Question: Who was in charge of Lithuania's Communist Party in 1989
Answer: Algirdas Brazauskas

Question: What party did  Lithuania's Communist Party break apart from?
Answer: Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Question: Who was in charge of the loyalist faction?
Answer: Mykolas Burokevičius,

Question: What place's control was the Communist Party of Lithuania out from under after the split?
Answer: Moscow's

Question: Who visited with the hope of bringing back the Communist Party of Lithuania to the Soviet Party?
Answer: Gorbachev

Question: When was Abulfaz Elchibey elected to Chairman of the Popular Front?
Answer: July 16, 1989

Question: How many protesters filled Lenin Square on August 19th?
Answer: 600,000

Question: What did the protesters want?
Answer: release of political prisoners

Question: What did the Popular Front do to Armenian railways?
Answer: blockade

Question: What shortages were caused by the blockade?
Answer: petrol and food

Question: How much freight into Armenia originated in Azerbaijan? 
Answer: 85 percent

Question: When was the sovereignty law passed?
Answer: September 25

Question: What in Jalilibad was taken over by the Popular Front?
Answer: local party offices

Question: What did the protesters want Georgia to leave?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: What did the protesters hope to see become a part of Georgia?
Answer: Abkhazia

Question: Who attacked the protest?
Answer: troops

Question: How many people died in the April 9 attack?
Answer: 20

Question: What happened to Georgian politics as a result of the attack?
Answer: radicalized

Question: What is commemorated on January 22 in Ukraine?
Answer: Ukrainian Independence Day

Question: What is a moleben?
Answer: religious service

Question: Where was the moleben held?
Answer: in front of St. George's Cathedral.

Question: What were people protesting in Kiev during the last part of February?
Answer: election laws

Question: Who did the protesters want to resign? 
Answer: Volodymyr Scherbytsky

Question: What was Scherbytsky's nickname?
Answer: the mastodon of stagnation

Question: Who visited the Ukraine while the protests were taking place?
Answer: Gorbachev

Question: How many people attended the service in Lviv?
Answer: between 20,000 and 30,000

Question: What ideology's victims were being honored by the Memorial Society?
Answer: Stalinism

Question: How many people from the pre-election meeting in Lviv were detained?
Answer: nearly 300

Question: Members of what ideology were more heavily elected to the union Congress of People's Deputies?
Answer: conservatives

Question: How many deputies were elected?
Answer: 225

Question: How many people attended the Lviv pre-election meetings?
Answer: 25,000

Question: How long did the warning strike last?
Answer: one-hour

Question: Where did the strike take place?
Answer: eight local factories and institutions

Question: Prior to the warning strike when was the last labor strike in Lviv?
Answer: 1944

Question: At what sight was the Bykivnia meeting held?
Answer: mass grave

Question: What were the hunger strikers hoping to draw attention to?
Answer: plight of their Church.

Question: When did the Lviv regional Memorial Society have its first conference?
Answer: May 27, 1989

Question: How many people attended the services in western Ukraine?
Answer: an estimated 100,000

Question: What were the protesters on September 2 demonstrating against?
Answer: draft election law

Question: How many protesters were there in Lviv?
Answer: 50,000

Question: Who was put in charge of the People's Movement of Ukraine?
Answer: Ivan Drach

Question: Where did the People's Movement hold its founding congress?
Answer: Kiev

Question: How many people demonstrated on October 1?
Answer: 10,000 to 15,000

Question: Who attacked the protest?
Answer: militia

Question: Where did the attack occur?
Answer: in front of Lviv's Druzhba Stadium

Question: What was happening in the stadium at the time?
Answer: concert

Question: Prior to the October 20 synod, when was the last one held in Lviv?
Answer: 1930s

Question: Where were the strikes?
Answer: Lviv

Question: What were the strikes in protest against?
Answer: police brutality

Question: How many factories had strikes on October 26?
Answer: twenty

Question: What was made Ukraine's official language in 1990?
Answer: Ukrainian

Question: Who decided Ukraine's official language?
Answer: Ukrainian Supreme Soviet

Question: For what reason would the Russian be spoken?
Answer: communication between ethnic groups

Question: Where was the January 2 memorial service?
Answer: Demianiv Laz

Question: When was The Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society made official?
Answer: mid-November

Question: The three human rights activists reburied November 19th were prisoners where?
Answer: Gulag Camp No. 36

Question: Where was Gulag Camp No. 36 located?
Answer: Perm in the Ural Mountains

Question: Where were the activists reburied?
Answer: Baikove Cemetery.

Question: Who met with Gorbachev on November 22?
Answer: Pope John Paul II

Question: What did the Belorussians wish to be cleaned up?
Answer: Chernobyl disaster site

Question: Where did the Chernobyl Disaster occur?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: When did the Chernobyl disaster happen?
Answer: 1986

Question: What symbol did the protesters wear on their arms?
Answer: radioactivity symbols

Question: How was the weather during the protest?
Answer: torrential rain

Question: Who went to the Fergana Valley to restore order?
Answer: Soviet troops

Question: Where is the Fergana Valley located?
Answer: southeast of the Uzbek capital

Question: Who were targeted by the local Uzbeks?
Answer: members of the Meskhetian minority

Question: Who was fired from First Secretary position by Gorbachev? 
Answer: Rafiq Nishonov

Question: Who replaced Nishonov?
Answer: Karimov

Question: Where was the fatal June 19th riots?
Answer: Zhanaozen

Question: Who were the rioters?
Answer: young men

Question: What did the rioters try to take over?
Answer: police station and a water-supply station

Question: How many towns had riots of their own following the initial riots?
Answer: five

Question: What was attacked in Mangishlak?
Answer: police station

Question: Which two groups saw increasing ethnic conflicts in 1988?
Answer: Armenians and Azerbaijanis

Question: Who was killed in the January 9 riots?
Answer: four Soviet soldiers

Question: How many people died in the Soviet response to the clashes?
Answer: more than 130

Question: What were the January incidents called?
Answer: Black January

Question: How many Soviet troops occupied Baku?
Answer: 26,000

Question: What party's candidates were murdered in the September 30 elections?
Answer: Popular Front

Question: How many members were from opposition parties?
Answer: 45

Question: How many total members were there?
Answer: 350

Question: Who was elected to be Chairman in May?
Answer: Mutalibov

Question: How many miles long was the human chain?
Answer: 300

Question: Who organized this chain?
Answer: Rukh

Question: What country's independence were the chain members celebrating?
Answer: Ukrainian

Question: When had the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church been broken up by the Soviets?
Answer: 1946

Question: In 1990 which party had most of the election victories?
Answer: the Democratic Bloc