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...governing a disintegrating nation was difficult. Although Trotsky made peace with the Germans in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Berlin's price was the separation from Russia of Poland, the Baltic states and the Ukraine. British and French troops landed in Murmansk to keep Russian supplies out of German hands. Various anti-Bolshevik "White" armies sprang up in the south and in Siberia. Japanese and American troops landed in Vladivostok...
Armenians and Azerbaijanis finally sat down to discuss their differences last week, but not on their own turf. Instead representatives from the two Soviet republics gathered in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Leaders of the Azerbaijani Popular Front and the Armenian National Movement accepted a call from their Baltic counterparts to open talks on their two years of violent clashes. Emerging from the first session, both groups agreed to seek the release of all hostages by March 1 and to establish permanent relations between the two groups. No speedy peace settlement is expected, if only because the Azerbaijanis refused...
Indrek Toome, premier of the Baltic republic ofEstonia and a guest at the party meeting,emphasized the threat from hard-liners...
About half the U.S.S.R.'s 286 million people are Russian; the rest of the population is splintered among nearly 100 other ethnic groups. The non- Russians best known in the West are the Baltic peoples -- Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians -- who are noisily resisting Moscow's domination. The three independent republics were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. For 50 years the U.S. has said Soviet rule in the Baltic republics is illegitimate...
...active decisions he did make were not in the cause of democracy. He warned the communist parties in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia not to declare their independence from Mother Russia. Given a chance to make substantive reforms in his own empire, he is loath...