Question: What were the attendance estimates from non governmental groups?
Answer: 30,000 to 40,000

Question: Who wrote about the KGB officer's testimony?
Answer: Mukhtar Shakhanov

Question: Whose support did Gorbachev seek in order to increase liberties?
Answer: the people's

Question: What party was Gorbachev in charge of?
Answer: Communist

Question: What group wanted to stop reforms?
Answer: "conservatives."

Question: When were the prisoners set free?
Answer: February 7, 1987,

Question: Who released the prisoners in the 1950s?
Answer: Khrushchev's

Question: What sort of prisoners were released?
Answer: political

Question: Who demonstrated close to the Kremlin in July of 1978?
Answer: Crimean Tatars

Question: Prior to 1987 when was the last large release of prisoners?
Answer: mid-1950s.

Question: Who disagreed vocally about the demonstrations being permitted?
Answer: Yegor Ligachev

Question: Who resigned in September of 1987?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Question: What was Gorbachev's reaction to Yeltsin's resignation?
Answer: stunned

Question: What did Yeltsin dislike about the reforms?
Answer: slow pace

Question: Who took Yeltsin's side?
Answer: No one

Question: Where did the demonstrators meet in June of 1987?
Answer: Freedom Monument

Question: Where is Freedom Monument?
Answer: Riga

Question: What did the protesters do?
Answer: laid flowers

Question: Where did further protests take place?
Answer: Baltic States

Question: Who were the protesters remembering?
Answer: Latvians

Question: What was being protested in Estonia?
Answer: new phosphate mines

Question: When did the phosphate mine protests begin?
Answer: spring 1987

Question: What group was started by ex-political prisoners?
Answer: MRP-AEG group

Question: Who was in charge of the MRP-AEG group?
Answer: Tiit Madisson

Question: What was requested for Estonia in the proposal printed by the Edasi newspaper in 1987?
Answer: autonomy

Question: When was the Yerevan demonstration?
Answer: October 17, 1987

Question: How many people demonstrated?
Answer: about 3,000

Question: What was the demonstrators' nationality?
Answer: Armenians

Question: The protesters were unhappy with the pollution in what body of water?
Answer: Lake Sevan

Question: Where did the protest march start?
Answer: Opera Plaza

Question: What ws the final day of the 19th Party Conference?
Answer: July 1, 1988

Question: What did Gorbachev hope to create?
Answer: new supreme legislative body

Question: What was Gorbachev trying to separate?
Answer: party and state

Question: What was the proposed legislative body called?
Answer: Congress of People's Deputies

Question: What was the ideology of Gorbachev's opponents?
Answer: conservative

Question: Whose laws would take precedence according to the declaration of national sovereignty?
Answer: Estonian

Question: Who claimed Estonia's national resources?
Answer: Estonia's parliament

Question: What was the name of the group that made its platform known on October 2?
Answer: the Popular Front

Question: How many Azerbaijanis died in the Askeran clash?
Answer: two

Question: When was the Askeran clash?
Answer: February 22, 1988

Question: Who killed the two Azerbaijanis?
Answer: Karabakh police.

Question: What was triggered by the radio broadcast of the deaths?
Answer: Sumgait Pogrom

Question: How many were killed in the ensuing riots?
Answer: 32

Question: Who did Gorbachev make First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party in 1988?
Answer: Abdulrahman Vezirov

Question: Who was First Secretary prior to Vezirov?
Answer: Kamran Baghirov

Question: How many soldiers died on September 17?
Answer: two

Question: People of what ethnicity were thrown out of Shusha?
Answer: Armenian

Question: How long did the Lenin Square protest last?
Answer: 18 days

Question: Where were the first demonstrations in Armenia?
Answer: Yerevan

Question: What is the capitol of Armenia?
Answer: Yerevan

Question: How many people protested on February 23?
Answer: 300,000,

Question: What sort of strike was called?
Answer: transport

Question: What percentage of Armenia's total population protested on February 25?
Answer: about a quarter

Question: Who banned the Azerbaijani people from Armenia?
Answer: Nationalists

Question: How many protesters died in the airport violence?
Answer: one

Question: Who had been previously removed from Azerbaijan?
Answer: Armenians

Question: Who took charge of Yerevan in November of 1988?
Answer: a military commandant

Question: When did the Democratic Movement of Moldova start operating?
Answer: February 1988

Question: Which monument was a popular meeting place?
Answer: Stephen the Great Monument

Question: Where was the Stephen the Great Monument located?
Answer: Chişinău

Question: What did the movement seek to make the official language of Moldova?
Answer: Romanian

Question: What was Moldova's previous name?
Answer: Moldavia

Question: What group was responsible for the April 25, 1988 protest?
Answer: Ukrainian Cultural Club

Question: Where did the march happen?
Answer: Kiev's Khreschatyk Street

Question: What did the marchers wish to commemorate? 
Answer: Chernobyl nuclear disaster,

Question: Which group held secret Milleneum of Christianity celebrations?
Answer: Ukrainian Catholics

Question: In what city did the Ukrainian Cultural Club have its Millennium celebration?
Answer: Kiev

Question: How many people attended the Lviv rally?
Answer: 50,000

Question: Where was the dispersal attempt made?
Answer: in front of Druzhba Stadium

Question: Who tried to stop the rally?
Answer: Authorities

Question: Who led the Millennium celebration in Zarvanytsia?
Answer: Pavlo Vasylyk

Question: Who wanted to break up the celebration?
Answer: militia

Question: What is the English translation of Zelenyi Svit?
Answer: Green World

Question: What sort of issues were Zenlenyi Svit and Noosfera concerned with?
Answer: ecological

Question: What sort of organization is Spadschnyna? 
Answer: cultural heritage

Question: What did people gather to observe on December 10th?
Answer: International Human Rights Day

Question: When did The Partyja BDF start?
Answer: 1988

Question: Who found mass graves?
Answer: Zianon Pazniak

Question: What is Pazniak's occupation?
Answer: historian

Question: Where were the graves found?
Answer: Kurapaty

Question: In addition to the police who did the BDF often have conflicts with?
Answer: KGB

Question: What was elected in 1989?
Answer: new Congress of People's Deputies

Question: Who was questioned on live TV?
Answer: Communist leadership

Question: Where was the Communist government overthrown first?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: When did the Berlin Wall get torn down?
Answer: 1989

Question: What did Eastern European people want to do with communism?
Answer: abandon it

Question: What percentage of people voted on March 26?
Answer: 89.8%

Question: How many constituencies had run-off elections?
Answer: 76

Question: How many CPSU endorsement having candidates lost to independents?
Answer: more than 300

Question: Who used the legislative session to debate and criticize?
Answer: reformers

Question: Who made up the Inter-Regional Deputies Group?
Answer: Russian nationalists and liberals.

Question: When did Yeltsin acquire a seat on the Supreme Soviet?
Answer: May 29

Question: What did the Communist Party lose on October 25, 1989 with regards to elections?
Answer: special seats

Question: Who voted to get rid of the special seats?
Answer: the Supreme Soviet

Question: When did congress meet to ratify the amendment to remove special election seats?
Answer: December 12–25

Question: What year did the Prague Spring take place?
Answer: 1968

Question: What happened to Prague and Hungary's attempts at independence?
Answer: suppressed by military force

Question: Under what doctrine was the Soviet Union required to intervene in the Warsaw Pact states?
Answer: Brezhnev Doctrine