New Union Treaty

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The New Union Treaty was a proposed agreement in 1991 to transform the Soviet Union into a looser federation of sovereign republics in an effort to prevent its collapse.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf constitutional reform proposal ⓘ
proposed political treaty ⓘ
aimedTo preserve a reformed union of Soviet republics ⓘ
prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union ⓘ
restructure the Soviet Union into a looser federation ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Novo-Ogarevo process treaty ⓘ
Treaty of the Union of Sovereign States ⓘ
linked to: New Union Treaty

Union Treaty ⓘ
linked to: New Union Treaty
country Soviet Union ⓘ
draftedAtLocation Novo-Ogaryovo residence ⓘ
draftedNearCity Moscow ⓘ
draftingProcessName Novo-Ogarevo process ⓘ
excludedRepublic Estonia ⓘ
Georgia ⓘ
Latvia ⓘ
Lithuania ⓘ
Moldova ⓘ
governingBodyInvolved Supreme Soviet of the USSR ⓘ
hasLanguage Russian ⓘ
historicalConsequence failure contributed to dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ
historicalSignificance last major attempt to reform and preserve the Soviet Union ⓘ
initiallyAgreedBy nine Soviet republics ⓘ
initiallySignedBy Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to: Kazakh SSR

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to: Russian SFSR

Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
keyPrinciple division of powers between center and republics ⓘ
greater economic autonomy for republics ⓘ
political pluralism within the union ⓘ
sovereignty of union republics ⓘ
voluntary membership in the union ⓘ
legalForm union treaty ⓘ
legalStatus draft treaty only ⓘ
opposedBy hardline communists ⓘ
independence movements in Baltic republics ⓘ
some Russian nationalists ⓘ
politicalLeaderInvolved Boris Yeltsin ⓘ
Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ
leaders of several Soviet republics ⓘ
preventedByEvent August 1991 Soviet coup attempt ⓘ
proposedBy Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ
proposedInYear 1991 ⓘ
proposedStructure decentralized union state ⓘ
federation of sovereign republics ⓘ
relatedToEvent dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ
relatedToPolicy glasnost ⓘ
perestroika ⓘ
republicsExpectedToJoin Azerbaijan ⓘ
Belarus ⓘ
Kazakhstan ⓘ
Kyrgyzstan ⓘ
Russia ⓘ
Tajikistan ⓘ
Turkmenistan ⓘ
Ukraine ⓘ
Uzbekistan ⓘ
scheduledSigningDate 1991-08-20 ⓘ
status never signed ⓘ
not implemented ⓘ
supportedBy Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ
reformist republican leaders ⓘ
timePeriod late Soviet period ⓘ
wouldCreateEntityNamed Union of Sovereign States ⓘ
wouldRetain common armed forces ⓘ
common currency ⓘ
common foreign policy ⓘ
common president of the union ⓘ
wouldTransformEntity Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ⓘ
linked to: Soviet Union

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

GKChP → opposed → New Union Treaty ⓘ
New Union Treaty → alsoKnownAs → Treaty of the Union of Sovereign States ⓘ
linked to: New Union Treaty
New Union Treaty → alsoKnownAs → Union Treaty ⓘ
linked to: New Union Treaty