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Getting to “Yes” on Self-Determination
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Two main concepts of a new Union and its genesis emerged in 1990–1991. Gorbachev conceived of a close-bound “vertical” federation, such as depicted in the draft Union treaty published March, 9, 1991, to be produced under the leadership of the Center, in consultation with the republics. The nationalist opposition in the nine prospective states of the new Union conceived of a decentralized confederation emerging out of a “horizontal” compact among equals. The two approaches involved clashing concepts of the right of self-determination as to both process and substance.
- Type
- Part I: Salvaging the Union
- Information
- Nationalities Papers , Volume 19 , Issue 1: Special Issue - The Soviet Nationalities despite Gorbachev , Spring 1991 , pp. 32 - 36
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1991 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc.