1991 Belarusian strikes

1991 Belarusian strikes
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	Wage increases; Restoration of lower prices; Cancellation of the 5% tax on goods sold outside Belarus; 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	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; Sergei Antonchik; Viktar Ivaškievič; Zianon Pazniak; Vasil Bykaŭ; Ales Adamovich; Mikhail Gorbachev; Anatoly Malofeyev; Nikolai Dementey; Stanislav Shushkevich; Vyacheslav Kebich; Eduard Shirkovsky;

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.