Boris Yeltsin, the congress delegate, Chairman of the Russian Supreme Council, outside the State Kremlin Palace before 28th USSR Communist Party Congress on July 2-13, 1990.02.07.1990#3244100
Ilham Rashidov, Secretary for Ideology, Samarkand City Committee, Communist Party of Uzbekistan, at home with his family.01.06.1990#6719573
Press conference by members of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party and members of the Armed Forces for foreign journalists. May 8, 1990.08.05.1990#8404043
Press conference by members of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party and members of the Armed Forces for foreign journalists. May 8, 1990.08.05.1990#8404042
Vilnius residents outside the building of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party.21.04.1990#6726316
Gennady Yanayev, a Soviet statesman, Communist Party and political activist and Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.20.04.1990#6644487
Recording a program with People's Deputies at a studio of the Volgograd Regional Television Network. Second right: Alexander Kiselyov, First Secretary of the Volgograd Regional Komsomol (Young Communist League) Committee.01.04.1990#6671044
Soviet and foreign journalists at the first press conference with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev (after swearing in).15.03.1990#6677889
The Third Congress of USSR People's Deputies was held of March 12-15, 1990. Photo: Debating the institution of the post of President of the Soviet Union. the Post was instituted on March 15, 1990.12.03.1990#6675198
The third Congress of USSR People's Deputies took place on March 12-15, 1990. Debate on the introduction of the office of USSR President (the office was introduced on March 15, 1990).12.03.1990#6677888
Center: Alexander Kiselev, first secretary of Volgograd regional Komsomol committee and People's Deputy of the USSR, at a meeting with former army officers and soldiers who served in Afghanistan.01.03.1990#8218674
Alexander Kiselev, first secretary of Volgograd regional Komsomol committee and People's Deputy of the USSR, and his wife at home.01.03.1990#8218669
The rally in support of democratic reforms, February 4, 1990. Moscow residents attend the rally demanding to abolish the Soviet Constitution's Article 6, which recognized the Communist Party of the USSR as the country's sole legitimate political party.04.02.1990#6668309
The rally in support of democratic reforms, February 4, 1990. Moscow residents attend the rally demanding to abolish the Soviet Constitution's Article 6, which recognized the Communist Party of the USSR as the country's sole legitimate political party.04.02.1990#6668308
The rally in support of democratic reforms, February 4, 1990. Moscow residents attend the rally demanding to abolish the Soviet Constitution's Article 6, which recognized the Communist Party of the USSR as the country's sole legitimate political party.04.02.1990#6668298
The rally in support of democratic reforms, February 4, 1990. Moscow residents attend the rally demanding to abolish the Soviet Constitution's Article 6, which recognized the Communist Party of the USSR as the country's sole legitimate political party.04.02.1990#6667967
The rally in support of democratic reforms, February 4, 1990. Moscow residents attend the rally demanding to abolish the Soviet Constitution's Article 6, which recognized the Communist Party of the USSR as the country's sole legitimate political party.04.02.1990#6667831
The rally in support of democratic reforms, February 4, 1990. Moscow residents attend the rally demanding to abolish the Soviet Constitution's Article 6, which recognized the Communist Party of the USSR as the country's sole legitimate political party.04.02.1990#6667826
On January 15-19, 1990, Moscow was the venue for the Global Forum on Human Survival. Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Speaker of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR, speaks at the forum.11.01.1990#8352765
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, speaks.22.12.1989#6645384
First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the USSR Communist Party Yury Prokofyev.20.12.1989#6623449
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nikolai Travkin, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Inter-Regional Deputies Group of the Congress of USSR People's Deputies.20.12.1989#6645391
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Center: Algirdas Brazauskas, First Secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party, with his colleagues during a break in the meetings at the 20th Conference of Lithuanan Communist Party on December 19-20, 1989.19.12.1989#6644997
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Algirdas Brazauskas, First Secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party, speaks at the 20th Conference of Lithuanan Communist Party on December 19-20, 1989.19.12.1989#6644993
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. The 20th Conference of Lithuanan Communist Party on December 19-20, 1989.19.12.1989#6644991
Voting results are announced at the 2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12-24, 1989. The congress focused on abolishment of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR.15.12.1989#8172685
The 2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12-24, 1989. The congress focused on abolishment of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR.15.12.1989#8172684
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People's Deputy Gennady Filshin, DSc (Economics), speaks. Background left: Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Far right: Anatoly Lukyanov, First Deputy Speaker of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament).15.12.1989#6645393
Vasily Fedin, doctor of history, Deputy Director of the Social Sciences Academy under the USSR Communist Party, expert in party-building.13.12.1989#6633972
Teimuraz Avaliani, USSR People's Deputy, Chairman of the Council of Kuzbass Workers' Committees and Chairman of the Kuzbass Strike Committee.13.12.1989#6633970
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Alexander Yakovlev, Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and one of the main architects of the perestroika drive, speaks.12.12.1989#6645383
The Second Congress of USSR People's Deputies at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (December 12-24, 1989). Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretaqry of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Candidate Member of the Politburo Anatoly reply to journalists' questions.12.12.1989#6655626
The Second Congress of USSR People's Deputies at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (December 12-24, 1989).12.12.1989#6655617
An anti-perestroika party rally in Leningrad in 1989, organized by Boris Gidaspov, USSR People's Deputy and First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. Leningrad party leaders were particularly concerned with the process of perestroika, condemning the reforms and trying to restore the party's authority.22.11.1989#6747592
An anti-perestroika party rally in Leningrad in 1989, organized by Boris Gidaspov, USSR People's Deputy and First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. Leningrad party leaders were particularly concerned with the process of perestroika, condemning the reforms and trying to restore the party's authority.22.11.1989#6747587
Plenary meeting of the Zelenogradsky District Committee of the USSR Communist Party. Election of the committee's first secretary. Recess.01.11.1989#6743061
Members of the presidium during a plenary meeting of the Zelenogradsky District Committee of the USSR Communist Party. Election of the committee's first secretary.01.11.1989#6743057
Plenary meeting of the Zelenogradsky District Committee of the USSR Communist Party. Election of the committee's first secretary. A delegate speaks during the meeting.01.11.1989#6743055
Plenary meeting of the Zelenogradsky District Committee of the USSR Communist Party. Election of the committee's first secretary. Delegates in the lobby watch the meeting.01.11.1989#6743053
Plenary meeting of the Zelenogradsky District Committee of the USSR Communist Party. Election of the committee's first secretary. Public voting.01.11.1989#6743052
Front left: Vladimir Semyonov, First Secretary of the Grodno Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, people's deputy of the Soviet Union.27.10.1989#6560652
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Yury Kuznetsov, First Secretary of the Petrozavodsk City Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.17.10.1989#6555077
Sergei Kolesnikov, Ph. D (HIstory), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist magazine.16.10.1989#6551992
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.02.10.1989#8449866
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.02.10.1989#8449865
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.02.10.1989#8449864
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Gumer Usmanov.02.10.1989#8449863
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.02.10.1989#8449862
A meeting between member of the Politburo of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the central Committee's Commission on Ideology Vadim Medvedev, center, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vladimir Petrovsky, 2nd right, and US Ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock, left, at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR.14.09.1989#5546649
A meeting between member of the Politburo of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the central Committee's Commission on Ideology Vadim Medvedev, right, First Deputy Head of the Department of Ideology of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Alexander Degtyaryov, 2nd right, and US Ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock, left, at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR.14.09.1989#5546646
Yevgeny Kogan, one of the leaders of the Estonian Intermovement. The international workers' movement of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Intermovement) was a political movement (opponent of the Popular Front) and organization in Estonian founded on July 19, 1988. Movement supporters had conservative and communist views and fought for preserving the Soviet Union and its territorial integrity.30.08.1989#6561824
The exhibition "Commemorating Stalinism victims." The originals of Ivan Pashkevich, who was sentenced to death by the Commission of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs and the USSR Prosecutor General's Office on November 27, 1937 and rehabilitated due to a lack of evidence on April 4, 1957.01.06.1989#5935174
The 1st Congress of USSR People's Deputies was held from May 25 until JUne 9, 1989. Photo: Politician and statesman Yevgeny Primakov, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, takes the floor.29.05.1989#5929696
An unauthorized rally in Moscow against the April 1989 events in Georgia, organized by leaders of the Democratic Union party.23.04.1989#6624632
Yury Lipatov, Second Secretary of the Ramenskoye City Committee of the USSR Communist Party.29.03.1989#6535183
Participants in the expanded meeting of the USSR Union of Theater Workers board elect people deputies of the USSR.11.03.1989#5926884
Ukrainian SSR. Left: Sergei Chervonopinsky, First Secretary of Cherkasy City Committee of Komsomol and People's Deputy of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.01.03.1989#6747597
Alexandra Biryukova, Candidate Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and Chairperson of Buro for Social Development of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.01.03.1989#6624628
