Rallies in the USSR during the Perestroika era (1989)

National flags of Russia and Armenia at a rally of the Popular Front of Latvia, distribution of issues of the newspaper "Atmoda".

Participants of the rally with the national flag of Armenia.

Participants of the rally talk to cadets of the military school, faces of cadets, an officer argues with one of the participants of the rally.

Participants of the rally argue with cadets and officers, a banner with a slogan about freedom of speech over the heads of the participants of the rally.

Military personnel argue with participants of the rally.

A banner with a slogan in defense of the public form of ownership.

A woman holds a glass jar for collecting funds for the Union of Social Protection.

Selling issues of the newspaper "Atmoda", participants of the rally read the newspaper.

Posters with slogans in defense of the health of military personnel in the hands of participants of the rally.

The cameraman is filming.

A double locomotive passes along the railway, a panorama of part of the rally.

A man distributes leaflets, people behind the fence reach out for leaflets, take leaflets apart.

A banner with a slogan, a panorama of an evening rally.

Banners with slogans against the dictatorship of the CPSU in the hands of rally participants.

Views of a night rally (from above).

A rally at the monument to Armenian composer Alexander Spendiaryan, installed next to the building of the Yerevan Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

Rally participants argue with each other.

An elderly man reads a newspaper out loud.