Exhibition Project THE SOVIET UNION. THE FINAL CHAPTER
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18 Mar 2011 - 31 May 2011
The Soviet Union. The Final Chapter exhibition project invites you to look back at the events that took place 20 years ago when the fate of the multinational Union State was decided.
The collapse of the Soviet power has radically changed both the geopolitical situation in the world and destinies of millions of people.
What caused the downfall of the USSR? Was it possible and necessary to preserve the Union State? What were the consequences of the Soviet Union break-up? These questions continue occupy the public mind of Russians. However, answers often come from the domain of political speculations and myths.
The discussion on the topic is not only of historical interest but also of practical significance, because today the Russian Federation still encounters major ethnic problems that jeopardize its existence as the integral state.
The Project represents a series of alternating exhibitions which will tell us about important milestones and dramatic circumstances, causes and consequences of the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The Project exhibitions will:
· show the role of ethnic conflicts, national movements in the Soviet Republics and different political forces for the break-up of the USSR,
· reflect the contradictory nature of acts of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in preserving the integrity of the country and creating a renewed union state,
· demonstrate the competition between the union and republican elites, and
· introduce visitors to the arguments of both supporters and opponents of the preservation of the Union and opinions of average Soviet people on the happenings of those times.
The Inviolable Union? exhibition will focus on the social and political situation in the USSR at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, when the country experienced a sharp rise in ethnic conflicts, an activation of separatist movements and increased confrontation between the Union Center and the Republics. The Exhibition will open on March 18, 2011.
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The exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in 1986 will not only remind us of the tragedy, but also show its role in the course of events that let to the USSR collapse. The Chernobyl Disaster has worsened the economic situation in the country, given an extra impetus to the nationalist and separatist dispositions and greatly undermined the authority of the Soviet power which attempted to conceal the truth from the people. The Exhibition will open on April 26, 2011.
The third exhibition will show the implications of the August political crisis (1991) for the USSR breakdown. The opponents of the "Novo-Ogarevo" draft of the Union Treaty in the government of the USSR decided to impose emergency rule to force Mikhail Gorbachev to reject signing this instrument. The resistance in Moscow and Leningrad has led to the liquidation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which served as the backbone of the Soviet Union. The Exhibition will open onAugust 20, 2011.
The final exhibition of this Project will provide insight into whether the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991 as a result of signing the Belavezha Accords by the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine was accidental or natural, and also shed light on some of the consequences of the USSR disintegration. The Exhibition will open onDecember 9, 2011.
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