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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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