Word: secessionism
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This unprecedented loosening of central authority is a bold but risky attempt by Gorbachev to deal with the surging tide of nationalism; he has had trouble riding that particular wave in recent months. While Baltic representatives acknowledged that their economies could not yet survive under full independence, some of the...
The state Legislature never responded to the council's request, but the controversy over "secession" indeed prevented the Cambridge Committee for Plan E from convincing enough citizens to support the restructuring measure the next month.
The attempted coup began when rebel officers seized the Defense Ministry. Major General Haile Giorgis Habte Mariam, the Defense Minister, refused to join the revolt and was killed. There were reports of MiG-21s and helicopter ( gunships screeching over the capital and of tanks and armored personnel carriers converging on...
After hearing that Goldman predicted the secession of ethnic minority republics, riots in the streets and massive strikes in his homeland, Shalnev concluded, "Professor, you're a real pessimist."
The Soviet leadership closed Tbilisi to foreign journalists, but it could not hide from the truth: the thorny problem of nationalism had erupted in violence yet again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become...