1991 general strike and protests in Belarus, Soviet Union
1991 Belarusian strikes
Part of the Belarusian democracy movement and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Date
3 – 25 April 1991 (3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Caused by
Price increases
Approval of the 1991 Soviet Union referendum
Goals
Early:
Wage increases
Restoration of lower prices
Cancellation of the 5% tax on goods sold outside Belarus
Later:
End of Communist Party committees within businesses
Resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
New elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Primacy of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Methods
General strike
Resulted in
Early demands fulfilled, later demands refused:
Wages increased
Price increases rolled back
5% tax cancelled
Parties
Striking workers
Belarusian Popular Front
Soviet Union
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Lead figures
Maryja Alijeva [be]
Siarhiey Antončyk [be]
Viktar Ivaškievič [be]
Zianon Pazniak
Vasil Bykaŭ
Ales Adamovich
Mikhail Gorbachev
Anatoly Malofeyev
Mikalay Dzyemyantsyey
Stanislav Shushkevich
Vyacheslav Kebich
Eduard Šyrkoŭski [be]
The 1991 Belarusian strikes, also referred to in Belarus as the April Strikes (Belarusian: Красавіцкія забастоўкі, romanized: Krasavickija zabastoŭki), were a series of nationwide strikes and rallies in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Belarus). Originally in opposition to price increases and a tax on goods from republics sold in another republic (which heavily affected the export-based Belarusian economy), the protests later turned into a broadly anti-Soviet movement, calling for the resignation of Soviet leadership, a reduction of the economic role of the Soviet government, and fresh elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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