Gorbachev's Mounting Nationalities Crisis


 

Publication Date: March 1989

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

Author(s): Leon Aron

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Report

Coverage: Soviet Union

Abstract:

The recent relaxation of police controls and restrictions on public discourse in the Soviet Union have coaxed into the open one of the most explosive problems facing Moscow: its fragile internal multinational empire.