Word: union
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party leadership tendered the proposal published in its newspaper, Pravda, as its solution to the ethnic conflicts that threaten to rip apart the Soviet Union. More than 200 people have died in ethnic strife in the past 18 months, and groups in several of the 15 republics are calling for secession...
Yesterday's document said that to achieve a transformation of the Soviet federation, "the question has been raised of working out and signing a new union agreement instead of the Treaty on the Formation of the U.S.S.R...
That could be limited to the party's suggestion of expanded powers for republics. But it opens the possibility that radicals could push through radical change such as Andrei D. Sakharov's suggested loose confederation of sovereign states, or even the breakup of the union into independent states...
...treaty created the U.S.S.R. as a union of allegedly sovereign republics which were in reality dominated by the Kremlin in Moscow...
Estonian activists originally suggested rewriting the treaty of union in November, when they made world headlines by becoming the first of the Baltics to declare their republic "sovereign" within the framework of the Soviet Union...