Word: secessionism
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Gorbachev's preoccupation with the secessionists is understandable. "As Lithuania goes, so goes the nation," observed a senior White House official. The volatile standoff between Moscow and Vilnius came just as radical ( nationalists won a majority of seats in the local legislatures of the other two Baltic republics, Estonia and...
The Supreme Soviet last week fine-tuned a law that would require a republic to hold a referendum in which two-thirds of the permanent residents vote in favor of secession. The national legislature would then review the results and set a transition period of up to five years before...
The struggle for control of the Baltic Republics in the Soviet Union has shown that full-blown greed, competition and vicious take-overs are not the sole province of Drexel Burnham. The secession of the Republic of Lithuania from the Soviet Union promises to be bigger than the break-up...
Moscow is visibly scrambling to find a way to contain this spreading chaos without resorting to repression. Like every Soviet leader since Lenin, Gorbachev faced a nationalities problem; he simply did not know how to solve it. A special party Central Committee meeting on the issue was repeatedly delayed. When...
We cannot reconcile ourselves to the idea that the U.S.S.R. as a country has no future. Each of the existing worlds within the empire longs for nothing less than sovereignty. But the Soviet leadership is unable to shake its belief that a fundamental revision of our national system would result...