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The Struggle for Political Sovereignty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michael Rywkin
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There are basically three choices as far as the future of the Union is concerned. The first is empire by force because the current federation is a federation only by label, and so, basically, a continuation of the same. The second is confederation, Yeltsin-style, based on inter-republican treaties. Confederation could have several variants. One is the Solzhenitsyn variant; the other is that everybody will get out of the Union; and the last is the nine-minus-six-scenario. The third and last alternative Soviet future is disintegration, with outside forces attracting the pieces: Muslims attracting the Muslim republics; Eastern Europe attracting the western Republics; and Scandinavia attracting the Baltic republics.

Type
Part II: Asserting National Sovereignty
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 19 , Issue 1: Special Issue - The Soviet Nationalities despite Gorbachev , Spring 1991 , pp. 78 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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