union of sovereign states

This is a discussion I found online while doing some research on the matter of a Union of Sovereign States. The points here are valid all across, but it seems that not a lot of people believe that Gorbachev's vision for a New Union Treaty was possible to begin with. Do you think the New Union...

OTL Russia was authoritarian, poor, corruption, oligarch, invaded Ukraine. TTL White Army won Civil War White army from authoritarian to transition democracy from 1985-86 Social Democracy Leader Gorbachev. Lenin has killed by Fanny Kaplan, Leon Trotsky Capture and Executed by White Army So...

In 1991, many republics of the Soviet Union expressed interest in recreating the union into a new federation of sovereign states, where things such the army and foreign policy would be United and agreed on. While it did express interest in joining the new union of sovereign states, Ukraine...

Between 1990 and 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to recreate the USSR into a democratic and less-centralized confederation. Communism would be abandoned and a multi-party democracy system would be introduced. The New Union Treaty would have made this possible, but the 1991 coup prevented all...

I've always found the idea of a successful New Union Treaty/surviving Soviet Union fascinating, especially in light of the current Ukraine-Russia crisis. From my (admittedly limited) research on the subject, the August coup attempt by Soviet hardliners is what finally killed the USSR, as it...

This is a photo thread for the TL New Union in which the Soviet Union does not collapse: https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/New_Union

A New Union "Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!" The Cold War, despite the ebb and flow of international influence and pride, had raged on without stop for over thirty years. Though the Soviet Union enjoyed a period of international strength through the ascension of power of Soviet-backed...

As we all know, the Soviet Union reformed into the Union of Soveriegn States under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 with the New Union Treaty, but what if there was no Union of Sovereign States? What PODs would have resulted in the Union of Sovereign States becoming stillborn? Yeltsin not having a...