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Perhaps the Azerbaijanis' attempts at peaceful negotiations with the central government had failed; this possibility has received little attention in recent coverage of events. It should be noted that Azerbaijan has patiently suffered Russian domination for 160 years now (since 1830), compared to only 50 years for the Baltic republics...
...much more ethnic violence can the Soviet Union endure? A month after anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...
...Baltics and the Caucasus were a disabusing revelation for him. He saw Lithuanian Communists declare their independence from the central party. The Lithuanian party was playing a leading role all right; it was leading the way to secession. And then, at the height of the civil war in Azerbaijan, angry citizens of Baku tore up and burned their party cards in protest against Moscow's use of armed force to reassert control...
...there have been signs that the Soviet leader was stumbling in his masterly balancing act. Despite his personal mediation, Lithuanian Communists vowed to continue on their defiant course of independence from Moscow. In the Caucasus ethnic tensions exploded in a virtual civil war, forcing Moscow to send tanks into Azerbaijan in defense of Soviet power. Meanwhile, grumbling about a vacuum of leadership at the center has grown audible, as food and consumer goods dwindled and crime and corruption increased. It was all evidence for Gorbachev's conservative opponents that his brand of reform was pushing the country into chaos...
...search of a just and peaceful future, millions of blacks and whites look to Mandela and President F.W. de Klerk to negotiate on power sharing. The education of De Klerk. -- What role did sanctions play? -- Mikhail Gorbachev faces another Afghanistan in Azerbaijan, and a Soviet general offers an eyewitness account of the bloodshed...