How America Should Respond to Moscow's August Putsch: Eight Guidelines

Publication Date: August 1991

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Burton Yale Pines; Kim R. Holmes

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Brief

Coverage: Soviet Union

Abstract:

No longer should Washington embrace a single Soviet leader. No longer should Washington shun the democratic reformers in the U.S.S.R. Instead, the Bush Administration unequivocally should declare its support for the democratic reformers and for the rights of the republics to transform themselves into independent democracies.