"The scenario of confederation is unlikely": the consequences of the August 1991 crisis in the USSR in secret CIA reviews (on the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union)
Abstract:The subject of the presented work is the assessment of the US national intelligence regarding the events in the period after the August 1991 crisis in the USSR and the prospects for its development within the framework of the model of the new Union Treaty against the background of centrifugal trends. The key theses included in the approved version of the report of the US intelligence community are characterized as the object of the work. The main attention is paid to the issue of inter-republican relations ins… Show more
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