Word: secessionism
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The West's passive approach could also persuade the Lithuanians to back down, which is probably essential to a peaceful outcome. To an extent, the Western powers share Moscow's pique at the way Vilnius raced single-mindedly toward independence. Says Ilya Prizel, professor of Soviet studies at Johns Hopkins...
The answer is, first, that South Carolina, unlike Lithuania, was not fully democratic. In 1860, 58% of its population was enslaved, denied, among other human rights, the vote. It was a white minority government, we would say today, that voted for secession.
And, second, Lincoln's Union, unlike Gorbachev's, was a democracy. Lincoln fought to preserve the Union because he believed that secession meant the end of the great American experiment in self-government. If a minority (the South), upon losing an argument (the election of 1860), can just pick up...
Touche, Ivan. But the argument is worth following one more step. Gorbachev has infinitely greater might on his side than Lincoln did in the Civil War, but considerably less right. And he knows it. Unlike Lincoln, Gorbachev has already conceded secession in principle. His ever droll spokesman, Gennadi Gerasimov, talks...
The war of nerves began building almost two weeks ago, when Gorbachev gave the Landsbergis government three days to respond to a declaration from the Congress of People's Deputies stating that the republic's secession on March 11 had been illegal. Landsbergis replied that the Congress's resolution was...