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Negotiating a New Life: Burdens of Empire and Independence—the Case of the Balties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Walter C. Clemens Jr.
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Walter C. Clemens, Jr. Negotiating a New Life: Burdens of Empire and Independence—the Case of the Baltics

The Soviet Union disappeared in 1991 but, dying, gave birth to many new shoots of life, each struggling to survive and flourish despite great difficulties. Devolution of empire rarely proceeds without pain; it often causes, or results from, great violence. The first year of independent life for the successor states of the USSR witnessed much less violence than attended the demise of other great empires in this century. None had to fight for liberation as did Algeria and Angola. The fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia does not approach the violence seen in the breakup of India, the attempted secessions of Katanga and Biafra, or the Croatian-Serbian war.

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Part II Afternoon Session
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 20 , Issue 2: Special Issue - The Ex-Soviet Nationalities Without Gorbachev , Fall 1992 , pp. 67 - 78
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Copyright © 1992 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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