Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY · 1991

January Events in Vilnius (1991)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Vilnius TV tower”

13 Jan 1991 — Lithuania had declared independence ten months earlier. Now Soviet troops and tanks seized the television tower in Vilnius, killing 14 unarmed civilians. Thousands of Lithuanians surrounded their parliament to protect it, and the crackdown went no further.

When: 13 Jan 1991
Type: Site of memory
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 January Events in Vilnius (1991), site of memory in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — SITE OF MEMORY · 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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