AH Question: Optimal Outcome for post-Soviet Europe?

Obviously, the OTL fate of post-Soviet Eastern Europe and Central Asia has been rather bad compared to what might have been, even considering that it was obvious as early as 1990 or so that the Warsaw Pact system could not possibly survive except perhaps much mutilated and deformed more than another few years. So, what kinds of PoD--limited to the period between August 22nd, 1991 and December 31st, 1993, please*--could lead to a better outcome in both democratic and economic terms, say with all post-Soviet states having a real per-capita GDP greater than their 1991 real per-capita GDP by 2000 and having at least moderately functional democracy (say, on the level of Ukraine IOTL--that is, it's not US/Europe standards, but it's not some dictatorship like Belarus or Uzbekistan were/are).

*The reason for the dates: August 21st 1991 was the date that the "August Coup" collapsed; hence, with a PoD on the 22nd or later, Soviet disintegration is effectively irreversible. So you can't have (say) the New Union Treaty pass without moving into ASB territory. By 1994 I feel that, while the details of what has happened could be finessed, overall you can't really end up with something much different than what actually happened, certainly not the dramatic improvement in outcomes I'm looking for.
 
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