Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT · 1989

Baltic Way (1989)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Baltic Way”

23 Aug 1989 — About two million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians joined hands in a chain some 675 km long, running from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi–Soviet Pact, they demanded that Moscow acknowledge the secret protocol that delivered them to it.

When: 23 Aug 1989
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Collapse of the Soviet Union (chapter 9 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas: Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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Map showing Baltic Way (1989), turning point in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — TURNING POINT · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth full administrative reference units · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · International Crisis Group: former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast geographic data · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography

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Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
International Crisis Group. GPL-3.0 · Only features explicitly labelled former NKAO are dissolved, irrespective of later control category. Later adjacent territories and Lachin corridor are excluded. Derivative data provided separately under GPL3.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction.
US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs.

The constituent Soviet republics use full successor-unit geographic references, with Crimea in Ukraine and the later Baikonur lease hole filled. Conflict hatches locate named territories and are excluded from sovereign-area accounting; source-date gaps are explicit.

proxy: Natural Earth administrative vintage · proxy: Natural Earth geographic reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 contemporary reference · proxy: Natural Earth5.1.2 administrative region reference · reconstruction: 1945–1991 · reconstruction: 1991–2000 · reconstruction: Chapter route completion/event date · reconstruction: Former1923–1991NKAO perimeter, retrospectively mapped · vector: 1953–2023 · vector: 1969–1975 · vector: 1987–2005 · vector: 1987–2023

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