Word: secessionism
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When Gorbachev arrived there last week for a three-day visit -- his first in more than nine years and the first ever by a General Secretary -- party issues were all but forgotten as the Soviet leader plunged straight into the more dangerous debate over secession. He came armed with his...
The dilemma that Gorbachev confronts is how to devolve power not only from the top downward but also from the center outward to the republics -- without unhinging his entire reform program or, worse still, losing territory. Should Gorbachev accede to Lithuania's demand for secession, he knows, he will be...
For now, Gorbachev hopes to appease Lithuanians with pledges to help them achieve independence within a federation, while soothing conservatives with promises that any formula for secession will be worked out in Moscow. There is still room for compromise; while all parties to the conflict bandy words like "self-determination...
This latest sign of fragmentation in Mikhail Gorbachev's multi-ethnic empire comes just as he is trying to defuse the growing threat of secession by the three Baltic republics. Lithuania's Communist Party has already declared its independence from Moscow headquarters, and the Estonian and Latvian organizations are considering...
"I am for self-determination all the way to secession from the Soviet Union", Gorbachev told a meeting of Lithuanian intellectuals. Gorbachev appeared to be saying that although he vigorously opposes such a move, he understands it could be a possibility.