GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syrian Civil War, Kurds In Syria, Russian Ruble
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Gorbachev"s reform led to end of soviet. Reforms facilitate emergence of nationalism and secession. Ethnic federalism (each repub shaped around different ethnic) Reforms designed to improve economy & political legitimacy. In final years, soviet relied on aid from us, etc. Critical cause to end of war collapse of soviet. Happened bc lack of clarity from soviet union. Then, gorb was president without a country. Voters supported democratic leaders in other republics of soviet. 1991: coup that sought to halt reforms and unseat gorb. Political support because he was democratic leader. Shifted political authority from soviet (gorb) to russian (himself) Help presidential elections same time of independence. Alters negotiations among belarus, russia, ukraine (december 7,8) Kravchuk did not want to depend on russia. Yeltsin supported similar thing (dissolution of union treaty) Did not want to be outvoted by republics in revised soviet. Agreed to respect existing boundaries & move nuclear weapons to russia.
