In the beginning the demonstrators in Erevan flew, not the provocative tricolor of the
shortlived independent republic, but the red flag with blue stripe of Soviet Armenia. They …

Under Leonid Brezhnev, Russian nationalism represented merely one of several repressed
political tendencies in the Soviet Union. Under Mikhail Gorbachev, it has surged to a …

The massive nationalist demonstrations that erupted in Soviet Armenia in February 1988
surely surprised Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev as much as they perturbed him. For seven …

In broadcast on a July nationally 1, 1989, as part televised Mikhail of the message
Gorbachev, regular to evening the President country news broadcast as part of the regular …

One of Gorbachev's principal failures was his management of the ethnic or nationalities
question: the break-up of the USSR was accelerated by renascent ethnic animosities, given …

The Yeltsin affair may in the future be seen as a minor episode in Mikhail Gorbachev's quest
to modernize Russia, but it was the first major domestic political crisis of the Gorbachev era …

T he end of communism in Eastern Europe and the pending unification of Germany mark the
political collapse of Russia in Europe. The rapid decline in the capacity of the …

Mikhail Gorbachev's" nationality problem" is at once different and more serious than those
faced by his predecessors. It is different because of the enormous social, economic, and …

In party the his Central speech of the Soviet delivered Committee Union at the (CPSU) of
plenary the on Communist session February of the Central Committee of the Communist …

The Soviet Union is a multinational state, with about half of the country's population being
ethnically Russian. The advent of glasnost, and moves toward democratization and …