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| 1982 |
| | | After 18 years as General Secretary of the Communist party in the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev dies in office | |
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| 1985 |
| | | New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev brings glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('reform') to the USSR | |
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| 1988 |
| | | The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces that Soviet troops will leave Afghanistan, handing victory to the mujaheddin | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Elections in Poland bring Solidarnośc nation-wide success, and the party is soon at the head of a coalition government | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany since 1971, is forced to resign after massive popular demonstrations | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Citizens of East Berlin demolish the Berlin Wall, in what proves a symbolic end to the Cold War | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The Communist party relinquishes power without bloodshed in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife are captured and executed in a Romanian uprising | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek is Speaker of Parliament and Václav Havel is President in the new democratic government of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin, impatient with the pace of reform under Gorbachev, resigns from the Communist party | |
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