Collapse of communist control of Albania in the early 1990s
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Fall of communism in Albania
Part of Revolutions of 1989
The toppling of Enver Hoxha's statue in Skanderbeg Square, Tirana (February 20th 1991)
Date
January 1990 – 22 March 1992
Location
Albania
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Related organizations
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Operation Jungle
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Poland 1944–1989
Poznań 1956
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Plzeň 1953
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Prague 1968
Invasion
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De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania
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1980 Moscow Olympics
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Fall
Singing Revolution
Polish Round Table Agreement
Revolutions of 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
January Events
Barricades in Latvia
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Wars
End of the Soviet Union
Post-Soviet conflicts
Fall of communism in Albania
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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Territory of former Eastern Bloc states with the years when their communist rule ended. For the former republics of the Soviet Union, years in which they declared independence.
The fall of communism in Albania, the last such event in Europe outside the Soviet Union, started in December 1990 with student demonstrations in the capital, Tirana, although protests started in January that year in other cities like Shkodra and Kavaja.[1] The Central Committee of the communist Party of Labour of Albania allowed political pluralism on 11 December and the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party, was founded the next day.[2] March 1991 elections left the Party of Labour in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a "stability government" that included non-communists. Albania's former communists were routed in elections in March 1992 amid economic collapse and social unrest, with the Democratic Party winning most seats and its party head, Sali Berisha, becoming president.
^Mysteries of December 1990 (Misteret e Dhjetoret) Archived 2011-02-11 at the Wayback Machine, TV Klan.
^Abrahams, Fred C. (2015). Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy. New York: NYU Press. pp. 169–221. ISBN 978-0814705117.
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